different between zot vs zol

English

Etymology 1

A sound effect. Popularized by the Usenet Oracle, a humorous Internet advice service, where the word was used as an irritated dismissal of a question.

Pronunciation

Verb

zot (third-person singular simple present zots, present participle zotting, simple past and past participle zotted)

1. (slang, transitive) To zap, kill, or destroy.
   • 1997, "Matt Lepinski", Zotting (on Internet newsgroup rec.humor.oracle.d)

     I've heard rumors about the oracle zotting people and I have these questions about zot?

   • 1997, "Terry Moore", COPS PUT LIVES ON LINE? (on Internet newsgroup austin.general)

     When a taxi driver, convenience store clerk, pizza deliverer, etc., gets zotted, it is on the back page of the local newspaper and not in out of town newspapers at all.

   • 1998, "RosieDawg", watergardening and dogs and Rosie's new toy, OT-ish (on Internet newsgroup rec.ponds)

     electric fence - zotting me was fine (well really!) but they were worried about zotting the several dozen human puppies that hang around at our house.

Etymology 2

Sound effect in the comic strip B.C., first published in 1958, associated with both (1) the rapid tongue of an anteater character and (2) lightning bolts.

Noun

zot (plural zots)

1. (US, slang) An anteater.

Interjection

zot

1. (US) The characteristic sound made by an anteater's tongue or by lightning.

Usage notes

• Associated with the UC Irvine Anteaters.

Etymology 3

Noun

zot (plural zots)

1. (South Africa, Zimbabwe, ethnic slur, offensive, derogatory) A black person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:person of color

Albanian

Alternative forms

• (Archaic) (religion) Zojzi
• (Gheg) ?ot [zot]
• (Tosk) zotë [zot?]

Etymology

• From older zota, from Proto-Albanian *dzw?pt, from *w(i)tspáti, from Proto-Indo-European *wi?pótis (“clan leader”) (compare Lithuanian vi?špats, Avestan ????????????????????????????????? (v?spaⁱti)), compound of *wey?- (“clan, extended family”) (compare Ancient Greek ????? (oikía, “house (clan)”), Avestan ????????????? (vi?, “royal court”)) and *pótis (“master”) (compare Ancient Greek ????? (pósis, “husband”), Tocharian A pats (“husband”)).
• From an old compound for "Sky father": Proto-Albanian *d?ie?u ? + *a(t)t-, from *dyew- (“sky”) +? *átta (“father”), compare Sanskrit ?????????? (dyáu?-pit??), Proto-Italic *djous pat?r (whence Latin Iuppiter), Ancient Greek ??? ????? (Zeû páter). The radical zot contains the zero-grade radical of Proto-Indo-European *dy?ws.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?t/

Noun

zot m (indefinite plural zotër, definite singular zoti, definite plural zotërit)

1. master, headman
2. boss, head
3. (religion) Lord, God
4. sir, mister

Derived terms

• zotëri/zotëni/zotni
• zotësi
• zotëroj/zotnoj
• zotërisht
• zota

Related terms

• Tosk: zonjë
• Gheg: zôjë

Noun

zot m (indefinite plural zotë, definite singular zoti, definite plural zotët)

1. landowner, owner of a wealthy estate
2. lord, head of a wealthy family with servants

Declension

See also

• pronar

References

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sot, a borrowing from Old French sot, from Medieval Latin sottus, of unknown origin. Compare Old English sott (“foolish, stupid”), English sot, modern French sot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?t/
• Hyphenation: zot
• Rhymes: -?t

Adjective

zot (comparative zotter, superlative zotst)

1. crazy
2. mad

Usage notes

Mainly Brabantian, dialectal in Hollandic.

Inflection

Synonyms

• gek
• getikt
• gestoord

Derived terms

• verzotten

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sot

Noun

zot m (plural zotten, diminutive zotje n)

1. A fool.

Usage notes

Same as above.

Descendants

• Afrikaans: sot

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French les autres (“the other guys”).

In French, the plural word autres is commonly preceded by a word, such as aux, les or mes, whose final s or x is not pronounced except in front of vowels, where it is pronounced /z/. As a result, autres was reanalyzed as having /z/ at the beginning.

Pronoun

zot

1. you, y'all (second-person plural personal pronoun)
2. they, them (third-person plural personal pronoun)

Usage notes

When usage might be ambiguous, zot is reserved for second-person plural and bann-la is used instead for third-person plural.

See also

English

Pronunciation

Noun

zol (plural zols)

1. (South Africa, slang) A marijuana cigarette.
   • 1983, Athol Fugard, Notebooks, 1960-1977 (page 176)

     An important man as he was the only source of the brown paper used for rolling zols.

   • 2001, K. Sello Duiker, The quiet violence of dreams (page 9)

     Look, you can't smoke four hundred zols a day...

   • 2007, Shunna Pillay, Shadow people (page 43)

     "All right, where's the zol?" Raju asked.
     "Why?"
     "You want to go in, we've got to give him dagga."

Anagrams

• LZO

Afrikaans

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?l/

Noun

zol (plural zolle, diminutive zolletjie)

1. joint (cigarette containing weed)

Derived terms

• daggazol

Turkmen

Noun

zol (definite accusative ?, plural ?)

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