| 释义 |
sotting, vbl. n.|ˈsɒtɪŋ|
[f. sot v. + -ing1.]
The fact or practice of playing the sot, or of indulging in sottish conduct.
1583Babington Commandm. (1590) 176 An example of vnmeasurable sotting in bed. 1603Breton Packet Mad Lett. i. xxviii, Now for sotting and slauery and for courting in knauery, be perswaded that time will imploy my purse to better purpose. 1707Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) II. 49 Which Faculty..he..lost by his Idleness and Sotting. 1760Cautions & Advices to Officers of Army 88 Perpetual Sotting cannot fail of blunting your Faculties. 1820Hazlitt Table-T. Ser. ii. xvii. (1869) 358 Nothing could overcome this propensity to low society and sotting. 1869H. Kingsley Stretton II. 206 She was a perfect and absolute mistress of the art of sotting. |