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SOT (sawt)

A drunkard

Common clues: Lush; Boozer; Rummer; Toper; Boozehound; Inebriate; Drunkard; Tippler; Barfly; Guzzler; Overdrinker; One who can't pass the bar?

Crossword puzzle frequency: 6 times a year

Frequency in English language: 60167 / 86800

News: Nation of princely drinkers, or servants of inebriation?

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That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead-drunk in the street, carried to the duke’s house, washed and dressed and laid in the duke’s bed, and, on his waking, treated with all obsequious ceremony like the duke, and assured that he had been insane, owes its popularity to the fact that it symbolizes so well the state of man, who is in the world a sort of sot, but now and then wakes up, exercises his reason and finds himself a true prince.


--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. “Self-Reliance,” Essays, First Series (1841, repr. 1847).



SOT (292) 30 >1 07 Drunkard

26 Th >1 06 Lush

23 We- >1 05 Barfly

18 >1 01 Boozer

16 We- >1 06 Tippler

11 Th- >1 04 Rummy

10 We >1 01 Toper

10 We+ >1 07 Boozehound

8 Th >1 06 Inebriate

6 We- >1 05 Drunk LIT

6 We- >1 06 Tosspot

6 We- >1 05 One who can't pass the bar?

6 Th- >1 00 Elbow-bender

6 Th >1 03 Stewed dude

4 Tu- >1 07 Wino

4 Th- >1 02 Juicer

4 Th- >1 09 W. C. Fields persona

4 Th- >1 06 Guzzler

4 Sa- NYT 07 Sponge BUM DAB

3 Tu+ LAT 06 Heavy drinker

3 Tu+ >1 97 He can't pass the bar

3 Th >1 07 Cold porter fan?

3 Th+ >1 04 Dipsomaniac

3 Fr- >1 04 Soak RET SOG SOP WET

2 We >1 07 Pub crawler









2 Tu- >1 08 Queen of Mount Olympus