Obs. Forms: 1–3 sotscipe, 3 sothscipe, sotschipe, 4 shotshipe. [f. SOT sb.1] Foolishness, folly.

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c. 1050.  Suppl. Ælfric’s Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 171/33. Hebetudo, dwæsnys, uel sotscipe.

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c. 1131.  O. E. Chron. (Laud. MS.), an. 1131. Þet hi heafdon forloron Sr Iohannes mynstre … þurh his mycele sotscipe.

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c. 1205.  Lay., 3024. Þa ȝet nolde þe leod-king his sothscipe bi-læuen.

4

a. 1225.  Leg. Kath., 1961. Swa þet Katerine … swike hire sotschipes, & ure wil wurche.

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c. 1300.  Havelok, 2099. Hweþer he sitten nou, and wesseylen, Or of ani shotshipe to-deyle.

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