sot

Probably later, in New England, some of them were by their neighbors said to be 'sot.'

He gets worse as he grows older—more 'sot' in his ways, as your mother would say.

Turgot, she confessed, was an honest man, but he was also a 'sot animal.'

Both men are what Mrs. Meakin calls 'sot,' and I foresee some jarring of wheels, so to speak, before they run smooth.