Also 4 sotye, 5 sottye, 9 sottie. [OF. sotie, sottie (mod.F. sotie in sense 2), f. sot SOT a.]
† 1. Foolishness, folly. Obs.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 60. Than haddest thou the gates stoke Fro such Sotie as comth to winne Thin hertes wit. Ibid., II. 209. The grete covoitise Of sotie and of fol emprise.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 360/1. Whan he was yonge he was full of many sottyes and folyes.
2. A species of broad satirical farce, current in France in the 15th and 16th centuries.
1791–1823. D’Israeli, Cur. Lit. (1866), 133. The sotties were more farcical than farce.
1837. Penny Cycl., IX. 417/2. Their most celebrated sotie, entitled ‘The Abuse of the World,’… is attributed to the historian Bouchet.
1879. Encycl. Brit., IX. 645/1. These performances … were soon rivalled by the more profane performances of the moralities, the farces, and the soties.
