different between ottery vs cottery

English

Etymology

otter +? -y

Adjective

ottery (comparative more ottery, superlative most ottery)

1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an otter.
   • 1991, BBC Wildlife, page 236:

     Anyone who has watched, for example, a litter of otter cubs rolling about in an ottery tangle can hardly doubt that they're really having fun.

   • 1996, Albert Goldbarth, Adventures in Ancient Egypt: Poems, Ohio State University Press (1996), ?ISBN, page 23:

     […] this guy she's seen before with the . . . ferret? or mongoose? ... an ottery thing, whatever, on a clothesline leash. . . .

   • 2006, Hans Kruuk, Otters: Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation, Oxford University Press (2006), ?ISBN, page 79:

     Spraints consist mostly of food remains, such as fish bones, to which are added the fairly inconspicuous secretions of two anal glands, situated along the gut close to the anus; they produce the 'ottery' smell.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ottery.

Synonyms

• lutrine, otterish, otterlike

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.