different between visiting vs cottaging

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v?z?t??/

Verb

visiting

1. present participle of visit

Noun

visiting (plural visitings)

1. The act of someone or something that visits.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth

     Come, you spirits […] make thick my blood, / Stop up th' access and passage to remorse / That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose […]

   • 2003, Joseph A. Conforti, Imagining New England (page 107)

     Instead, he found the Sabbath in North Carolina "generally disregarded, or distinguished by the convivial visitings of the white inhabitants, and the noisy diversions of the negroes."

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