What's the difference between bibulous and sottish?

Bibulous


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.
  • (v. t.) Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
  • (2) Lulu joined him on a bibulous book tour of the States.
  • (3) I couldn’t help but think that these pictures were some mere trick of my imagination – or maybe some leftover of an overly bibulous evening.
  • (4) For several years, he took a group of friends – "Farage's Foragers" – on bibulous holiday expeditions to the battlefields of France and Belgium.

Sottish


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a sot; doltish; very foolish; drunken.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The IFS told the Guardian that key Sottish National party pledges, including freezing the state retirement age, increasing universal credit payments, scrapping the bedroom tax and retaining child benefit, are not covered in the Scottish first minister’s proposal to raise public spending across the UK by 0.5% a year.
  • (2) He planted a vineyard, not the most useful of things with which to restart civilisation, and then lay sottish and naked in his tent.