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Definition of Cottoning
1. cotton [v] - See also: cotton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cottoning
Literary usage of Cottoning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... permit me to say that I think I can remember " cottoning to " in the sense of
taking kindly to, as used before Americanisms became of cant use in ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"... such a tc rm—is not aware of his character and position "i Would that lie
could but hear himself spoken of by those to whom he has last been cottoning ! ..."
3. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"I want to tell you the Dukes, both mother and son, are cottoning to her fast enough.
'Pon my soul, I believe they think you'll come down with a fortune for ..."
4. The Autobiography of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, Sophia Penn Page Shaler (1909)
"As a boy I liked to rummage among the lot with an inquiring interest in the odds
and ends of folk. I remember one morning cottoning to ..."
5. A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect by David Binning Monro (1891)
"Some of these senses are beginning to be used in the Homeric language : eg Ap^i
with the Dat. = about, cottoning ; nep£ with the Gen. ..."
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