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cottage
English
Etymology
Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Proto-Germanic *kutan, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, but possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota. However, also compare Dutch and English hut.
Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same Proto-Germanic origin.
Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance.
Pronunciation
- (General American)
- IPA(key): /?k?t?d?/, [?k???d?]
- (weak vowel merger) IPA(key): /?k?t?d?/, [?k???d?]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?t?d?/
- Hyphenation: cot?tage
Noun
cottage (plural cottages)
- A small house.
- Synonyms: cot, hut
- A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
- (Britain, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom
- (Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.
- Synonyms: gingerbread office, tea room, tearoom, teahouse, (US) tea house
Derived terms
- cottage cheese
- cottage food operation
- cottage hospital
- cottage industry
- telecottage
Related terms
- cosset
- cot
- coterie
Descendants
- ? French: cottage
Translations
Verb
cottage (third-person singular simple present cottages, present participle cottaging, simple past and past participle cottaged)
- To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
- (intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
Further reading
- cottage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English cottage.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?.ta?/
Noun
cottage m (plural cottages)
- cottage
Portuguese
Noun
cottage m (uncountable)
- cottage cheese (a cheese curd product)
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cottager
English
Etymology
From cottage +? -er; compare cotter.
Pronunciation
Noun
cottager (plural cottagers)
- A person who has the tenure of a cottage, usually also the occupant.
- 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
- I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
- 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
- (Britain, slang) One who engages in sex in public lavatories; a practitioner of cottaging.
Synonyms
- coscet
- cotter
Translations
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