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Cottage

//ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A township in Saline County, Illinois.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Macon County, Missouri, United States.
  3. 3
    A village in Rivière du Rempart District, Mauritius.
Noun
  1. 1
    A small house.

    "So when four years were wholly finished, / She threw her royal robes away. / “Make me a cottage in the vale,” she said, / “Where I may mourn and pray."

  2. 2
    a small house with a single story wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    A public lavatory. UK, archaic, slang
  5. 5
    A meeting place for homosexual men. Polari
Verb
  1. 1
    To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
  2. 2
    To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging. Polari, intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota. However, also compare Dutch and English hut. Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same Proto-Germanic origin. Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance.

Etymology 2

Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from Uralic; compare Finnish kota (“hut, house”) and Hungarian ház (“house”), both from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota. However, also compare Dutch and English hut. Old Northern French cote is probably from Old Norse kot (“hut”), cognate of Old English cot of same Proto-Germanic origin. Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance.

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