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Meaning of "cottaging" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD COTTAGING

From cottage.
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PRONUNCIATION OF COTTAGING

cottaging  [ˈkɒtɪdʒɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COTTAGING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cottaging is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COTTAGING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cottaging

Cottaging

Cottaging is a British gay slang term referring to anonymous sex between men in a public lavatory, or cruising for sexual partners with the intention of having sex elsewhere. The term has its roots in self-contained English toilet blocks resembling small cottages in their appearance; in the English cant language of Polari this became a double entendre by gay men referring to sexual encounters. "Cottage" is documented as having been in use during the Victorian era to refer to a public toilet and by the 1960s had become an exclusively homosexual slang term. The word used in this sense is predominantly British, though the term is occasionally used with the same meaning in other parts of the world. Among gay men in America, lavatories used for this purpose are called tea rooms.

Definition of cottaging in the English dictionary

The definition of cottaging in the dictionary is homosexual activity between men in a public lavatory.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COTTAGING


ageing
ˈeɪdʒɪŋ
aging
ˈeɪdʒɪŋ
bridging
ˈbrɪdʒɪŋ
damaging
ˈdæmɪdʒɪŋ
discouraging
dɪsˈkʌrɪdʒɪŋ
disobliging
ˌdɪsəˈblaɪdʒɪŋ
disparaging
dɪˈspærɪdʒɪŋ
encouraging
ɪnˈkʌrɪdʒɪŋ
engaging
ɪnˈɡeɪdʒɪŋ
haemorrhaging
ˈhemərɪdʒɪŋ
imaging
ˈɪmɪdʒɪŋ
managing
ˈmænɪdʒɪŋ
messaging
ˈmɛsɪdʒɪŋ
obliging
əˈblaɪdʒɪŋ
packaging
ˈpækɪdʒɪŋ
paging
ˈpeɪdʒɪŋ
pillaging
ˈpɪlɪdʒɪŋ
raging
ˈreɪdʒɪŋ
staging
ˈsteɪdʒɪŋ
vintaging
ˈvɪntɪdʒɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COTTAGING

cotta
cottabus
cottage
cottage cheese
cottage country
cottage flat
cottage garden
cottage hospital
cottage industry
cottage loaf
cottage piano
cottage pie
cottage roll
cottager
cottagey
cottar
Cottbus
cotted
cotter
cotter pin

WORDS THAT END LIKE COTTAGING

blogging
bordraging
challenging
changing
document imaging
emerging
garaging
ging
hanging
instant messaging
lodging
magnetic resonance imaging
picture messaging
pound cost averaging
radiopaging
singing
text messaging
thermal imaging
unencouraging
voyaging

Synonyms and antonyms of cottaging in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cottaging» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COTTAGING

Find out the translation of cottaging to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cottaging from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cottaging» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cottaging
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cottaging
570 millions of speakers

English

cottaging
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cottaging
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

cottaging
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

cottaging
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cottaging
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cottaging
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chalets
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cottaging
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cottaging
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cottaging
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cottaging
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cottaging
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cottaging
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cottaging
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॉटेजिंग
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cottaging
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cottaging
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cottaging
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

cottaging
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cottaging
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cottaging
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cottaging
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cottaging
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cottaging
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cottaging

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COTTAGING»

The term «cottaging» is regularly used and occupies the 100.850 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COTTAGING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cottaging» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cottaging» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cottaging

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COTTAGING»

Discover the use of cottaging in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cottaging and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Winter Cottaging: How to enjoy your cottage all year round
How well will our gear survive if we leave it all winter? Here is a collection of our favourite questions from Cottage Life magazine readers and answers from experts, about one of the most rewarding times of year.
Cottage Life, 2012
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Green Cottaging: How to preserve the cottage environment
Green Cottaging: How to preserve the cottage environment is a collection of our favourite environmental questions from Cottage Life magazine readers and answers from experts, with pragmatic solutions you can use at your cottage.
Cottage Life, Cottage Life, 2012
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Cottage Life's Green Bundle: 3-Book Set: Green Cottaging; ...
Do you want to know how best to preserve the natural environment at your lakeside cottage or country retreat? This three-book bundle includes answers to questions Cottage Life readers have about being green.
Cottage Life, 2013
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Gaydar Culture: Gay Men, Technology and Embodiment in the ...
digital space created for the sole purpose of negotiating casual sexual encounters between men in specific (semi)public spaces in corresponding offline locations.3 Public (in)conveniences: Cottaging in context Before embarking on a detailed ...
Dr Sharif Mowlabocus, 2012
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Cottaging
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, 2010
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Cottage Country in Transition: A Social Geography of Change ...
Building from this, the term cottaging area defines that set of small-lot waterfront properties developed for cottage units. The notion of waterfront property is included here because in both study areas the key amenity is the lake. To capture the ...
Greg Halseth, 1998
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Tourism, Mobility and Second Homes: Between Elite Landscape ...
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 ...
C. Michael Hall, Dieter K. Muller, 2004
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A Timeless Place: The Ontario Cottage
... I., 64, 254n3o Boshkung Lake, Ontario, 148 Boshkung Lake Millennium Book Committee, 15 Bourdieu, P., 35, 187 Bovet, L., 19 Brand, Dionne, 158, 261n21 British Columbia: cottaging in, 19 bugs, 80, 134, 155 Bunce, R., 90 Caldwell, P., 50, ...
Julia Harrison, 2013
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Landscape and the Ideology of Nature in Exurbia: Green Sprawl
Cottaging. Given that the realm of the imaginary is so very rich, it is useful to start an appraisal of its manifestations by examining basic terminology. The quintessential central Ontario lakeside cottage has historically beenamodest affair.Turning ...
Kirsten Valentine Cadieux, Laura Taylor, 2013
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Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical ...
The leisure practice of cottaging (owning and using a second home) embodies both sides of this modern tension. It is a modern expression of the need to have an authentic, rooted identity somewhere, but also a concrete manifestation of a ...
David Crouch, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COTTAGING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cottaging is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hamptons of the North booms with $20 million Muskoka listing
Here, 124 miles north of Toronto, Canada's largest city, cottaging is a verb and all estates are called cottages – no matter the size. The cool ... «Buffalo News, Jul 15»
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David Suchet says drag role makes him 'quite dizzy'
The Importance of Being Earnest, Vaudeville Theatre, review. • The 31 best TV detectives and sleuths. "Cottaging," he emphasised. "Cottaging. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
3
Bruce Lloyd Passes
Bruce loved spending weekends with his family at Osler Bluff Ski Club in the winter and cottaging in Muskoka in the summer. A funeral service ... «Standardbred Canada, Jul 15»
4
Your A to Zen guide for blissful cottage living this summer
Cottaging is typically a family affair, but that doesn't mean everyone has to shack up together. Sealy's sanity-saving fix: dedicated bunkies – or ... «The Globe and Mail, Jun 15»
5
Look Again: Perception, Imagination and Nature's...
BRACEBRIDGE — Paper artist Col Mitchell's influence lies in over 20 formative years of rustic, electricity-absent summers spent cottaging in ... «www.muskokaregion.com/, Jun 15»
6
Muskoka becoming Hamptons of the North as cottage prices top $25 …
Here, 200 kilometres north of Toronto, Canada's largest city, cottaging is a verb and all estates are called cottages — no matter the size. «Financial Post, Jun 15»
7
Hamptons North Booms as Muskoka Cottages Lure Buyers
Here, 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Toronto, Canada's largest city, cottaging is a verb and all estates are called cottages -- no matter the ... «Bloomberg, Jun 15»
8
THEATER REVIEW Porcelain
... rumored to be a refuge for "cottaging." Since the murderer readily confessed to the crime—indeed, was discovered immediately afterward, ... «Windy City Times, Jun 15»
9
'This could be the end of my career!'
"Cottaging. This is Oscar Wilde saying that the handbag was found in a place where men met for 'social indiscretion' – 'and has probably ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
10
Five ways to make the most of outdoor living
As devoted fans of cottaging — and indeed the wider great outdoors — we completely understand why Canadians live for their time outside. «London Free Press, Jun 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cottaging [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cottaging>. May 2024 ».
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