assot

English

Etymology

From Middle English asoten, assoten, from Old French asoter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /əˈsɒt/

Adjective

assot (comparative more assot, superlative most assot)

  1. (obsolete) dazed; foolish; infatuated

Verb

assot (third-person singular simple present assots, present participle assotting, simple past and past participle assotted or assot)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To besot; to befool; to infatuate.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “assot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic السَّوْط (as-sawṭ, “the whip”). First attested in the 13th century.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

assot m (plural assots)

  1. whip, scourge
    Synonyms: fuet, flagell
  2. flogging

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ “assot”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.

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