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English

Pronunciation

Noun

cottaging (uncountable)

1. (Britain, slang) Sexual activity in a public lavatory, especially homosexual activity between men.
   • 1993 October 6, Anna Kisselgoff, "Upstart and Formal Styles in Montreal", in The New York Times, page C14:

     "MSM," a term that is reportedly English social-work jargon for "men seeking sex with men," explores the reasons why men, including heterosexuals, cruise in English lavatories, which are, believe it or not, called "cottages." The text is made up of actual interviews with those who go "cottaging."

2. A seasonal activity involving a prolonged stay at one or more cottages; similar to visiting, but typically for a longer duration and at a seasonal home that one owns or rents.
   • 2004, C. Michael Hall, Dieter K. Muller, Tourism, Mobility and Second Homes (page 69)

     This comparison between the commercial cottager and the private cottager begins to give us an insight into differences between the private cottager and the commercial cottager, a difference that has implications for the relation of cottaging to city life.

Related terms

• cottage
• cottager

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)

1. A small house.

   Synonyms: cot, hut

2. A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.

3. (Britain, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:bathroom

4. (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)

1. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
2. (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)

1. cottage

Portuguese

Noun

cottage m (uncountable)

1. cottage cheese (a cheese curd product)