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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
sottish is an adjective meaning "given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol". It carries one recorded sense.
given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol
“a bibulous fellow”
“a bibulous evening”
“his boozy drinking companions”
“thick boozy singing”
“a drunken binge”
“two drunken gentlemen holding each other up”
“sottish behavior”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sottish come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.