Cothouse
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A small cottage, especially one that was the home of a cottar. Scotland
"He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree. Moreover, he was of gentle kin, and she was a poor lass biding in a cot house with an ill-reputed mother."
Example
More examples"He was good to look on, brawly dressed, and with a tongue in his head that would have wiled the bird from the tree. Moreover, he was of gentle kin, and she was a poor lass biding in a cot house with an ill-reputed mother."
Etymology
From cot + house.
More for "cothouse"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.