cottage
Pronunciation Noun
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Pronunciation Noun
cottage (plural cottages)
- A small house.
- Synonyms: cot, hut
- A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
- Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home.
- (UK, slang, archaic) A public lavatory.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:bathroom
- (Polari) A meeting place for homosexual men.
- Synonyms: gingerbread office, tea room, tearoom, teahouse, tea house
- French: cottage
- German: Cottage, Häuschen, Kotten
- Italian: casolare, rustico
- Portuguese: chalé
- Russian: (shack) хи́жина
- Spanish: chalet
cottage (cottages, present participle cottaging; past and past participle cottaged)
- To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
- (intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002