sottish adj : 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 gentleman holding each other up"; "sottish behavior" [syn: bibulous, boozy, drunken]

English

Adjective

sottish

1. alcoholic, drinking heavily
2. drunk

Quotations

• Gabriel strove to restrain himself from breaking out into brutal language about the sottish Malins and his pound. - "The Dead", from "Dubliners" by James Joyce (1914)

Boeotian, addicted to drink, asinine, beef-brained, beef-witted, bibacious, bibulous, blockish, bovine, chumpish, cloddish, cowish, crass, dense, doltish, drinking, drunken, dullard, dumb, duncical, duncish, fat, given to drink, gross, ineducable, klutzy, lumpish, oafish, opaque, stupid, swilling, thick, tippling, toping, unteachable, winebibbing, wrongheaded