sottery

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English

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Etymology

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From sot +‎ -ery.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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sottery (countable and uncountable, plural sotteries)

  1. (archaic) Drunkenness.
    • 1865, Isabella Banks, God's Providence House, volume 2, page 72:
      A large door will turn on a small hinge, and the experience of one night had done more to disgust Phœbe with her unruly lover than all the sottery she had witnessed under her father's roof for months. In general Matthew's drinking-bouts had followed some wayward and tyrannical caprice of hers, []
  2. (obsolete) Folly.
    • 1653, John Gauden, Hieraspistes:
      [] heathenish Sottery

References

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sottery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.