different between cottery vs lottery

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?t??i/

Adjective

cottery (comparative more cottery, superlative most cottery)

1. (dialect, rare) Tangled (of hair).
   • 1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door, Penguin 2014 (The Regeneration Trilogy), p. 456:

     Prior had looked across the heaving backs and seen a boy, about his own age, standing pressed back against the wall, his white, still face half hidden by a mass of cottery black hair.

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian lotteria, from the same root as Old English hlot (cognate with English lot). Compare French loterie (from Middle Dutch loterie).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?t??i/, /?l?t?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?t?i/
• Hyphenation: lot?te?ry

Noun

lottery (plural lotteries)

1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance, especially a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, the other tickets are blanks.
2. (figuratively) Something decided by chance.
3. (obsolete) Allotment; a thing allotted.

Derived terms

• genetic lottery
• lotologist (probably)
• lotterylike
• lottery ticket
• postcode lottery

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