cottager
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See also: Cottager
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From cottage + -er; compare cotter.
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
cottager (plural cottagers)
- A person who has the tenure of a cottage, usually also the occupant.
- 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
- A cottager, I mark’d a throne
Of half the world as all my own,
And murmur’d at such lowly lot —
- 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.
- (British, slang) One who engages in sex in public lavatories; a practitioner of cottaging.
Synonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
a person who has the tenure of a cottage
one who engages in sex in public lavatories