cottageとは

発音

A thatched cottage in Herefordshire, United Kingdom.

A public toilet in London, United Kingdom.

• (General American)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈkɑtɪdʒ/, [ˈkɑɾɪdʒ]
  • (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑtədʒ/, [ˈkɑɾədʒ]
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒtɪdʒ/
• ハイフネーション: cot‧tage

名詞

cottage (複数形 cottages)

1. A small house; a cot; a hut.
2. A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”

   Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home.

3. (Britain, slang, archaic) A public lavatory
   1. (Polari) as a meeting place for homosexual men.

同意語

• (public toilet as a gay meeting place): gingerbread office; tea room, tearoom, teahouse, tea house (米国用法); see also Thesaurus:bathroom.

派生語

• cottage cheese
• cottage food operation‎
• cottage hospital
• cottage industry
• telecottage

関連する語

• cosset
• cot

動詞

cottage (三人称単数 現在形 cottages, 現在分詞 cottaging, 過去形および過去分詞形 cottaged)

1. To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
2. (intransitive, Polari, of men) To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.