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单词 cottager
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cottagern.

Brit. /ˈkɒtᵻdʒə/, U.S. /ˈkɑdədʒər/
Forms:

α. 1500s coticher, 1500s cotiger, 1500s cottyger, 1500s–1600s cotager, 1500s– cottager.

β. 1500s cotinger, 1600s cottinger.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: cottage n., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < cottage n. + -er suffix1. Compare post-classical Latin cotagiarius (from 13th cent. in British sources).With sense 1b compare earlier cottar n. With sense 4 compare earlier cottage v. and cottaging n. 3, and also the expressions illustrated at cottage n. Compounds 1d. Variant forms. With the β. forms compare passenger n. and messenger n. and discussion at those entries.
1.
a. A person who lives in a cottage (esp. in sense 1a).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > inhabitants of specific types of house
cottager1523
cotquean1547
coter1631
cottier1820
tenement householder1894
homecrofter1897
block dweller1902
soddy1958
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xiv. f. xxviiv It is to be enquered of Cotagers, what cotages and curtylages they holde, & by what seruyce.
1550 T. Lever Serm. Thyrd Sondaye in Lente (new ed.) sig. E.iii The poore cotingers..had ye milke for a very small hyre.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 53 The poore Cotager contenteth himselfe with Cob for his wals, and Thatch for his couering.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 74 The yeomanrie or Middle-People, of a Condition between Gentlemen, and Cottagers.
1698 W. Baron Dutch Way of Toleration 7 Will the Freeholder, even to the Cottager with his Cabbage-ground and Apple-Tree, recede from the Right he has of throwing up his Cap at a County-Election?
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxix. 175 Here..the proud Cottager will needs be a Lady, in Hopes to conceal her Descent.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc v. 93 But little cause to love the mighty ones Hath the low cottager.
1853 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. xiv. 257 They are living in a hut on the borders of Loch Achray, playing at cottagers, as rich people like to do.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles I. vi. 80 Like all the cottagers of Blackmoor Vale, Tess was steeped in fancies and prefigurative superstitions.
1901 E. Step Shell Life 259 The cottagers of Shetland make use of the shell as an elegant lamp.
1984 R. Feild Irons in Fire v. 127 Towards the end of the eighteenth century in England, cottagers and artisans were making slow-cooking dishes such as rice pudding and Devonshire whitepot.
2008 U. McGovern Lost Crafts (2009) 185 Chimney sweeping..was once a job that was carried out by cottagers, using a bundle of holly and a rope.
b. Scottish. A tenant on a farm who occupies a cottage in return for providing labour to the farmer; = cottar n. 2. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > inhabitants of specific types of house > cottager by service of labour
cottier1386
coterell1393
cottar1552
cotman1559
cottager1760
1760 Diss. Chief Obstacles Improvem. Land iv. 47 Cottagers, or cotters, being married men, who rent houses and small parcels of land from farmers, and employ themselves more or less..as fixt servants.
1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acc. Scotl. V. 383 Upon the different farms, a cottager, or, as he is commonly called, a cotter, is kept for each plough employed on the farm.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Cottown, Cotton, Cottar-town, a small village, or hamlet, possessed by cottars or cottagers, dependent on the principal farm.
1884 Aberdeen Weekly Jrnl. 4 Sept. 3/4 In the opinion of this meeting the condition of the Highland crofters and cottagers, as detailed in the report of the Royal Commission, is discreditable to this great and wealthy nation.
2. A person who lives on common land without payment and owns no land. Obsolete. rare.Johnson's definition is apparently due to a misunderstanding of uses of sense 1a in two passages in Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII (see quot. 1622 at sense 1a), which are quoted in support of the definition.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) A cottager, in law, is one that lives on the common, without paying rent, and without any land of his own. [Also in later dictionaries.]
3. North American (now chiefly Canadian). A person who stays in a private holiday home, or rents a home in a holiday resort (see cottage n. 5a), rather than staying in a hotel, boarding house, etc.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > summer inhabitant
summer boarder1826
cottager1851
summer cottager1874
1851 Weekly Herald (N.Y.) 26 July 234/4 [They] built cottages [in Newport, Rhode Island], where they reside.., but come to the Ocean House every day or evening... This would not be a profitable arrangement for the proprietor of the hotel, were it not for the fact that their places are supplied as fast as they are vacated by the ‘cottagers’.
1874 Frank Leslie's Illustr. Newspaper 7 Feb. 362/1 The crowds of Summer visitors [to Atlantic City] have gone, the hotels are closed, the beach is deserted, and but few of the cottagers remain.
1883 Nation (N.Y.) 9 Aug. 111 An illustration of the conflict between the Boarder and the Cottager at our leading summer resorts, and especially those of the seaside.
1904 Manitoba Free Press 12 Oct. 8/1 Oak Point will be made a summer resort and special accommodation will be provided for campers, cottagers and holiday excursions.
1929 Motor Boating Dec. 194/2 The cottager who spends his summers or summer vacations on the waters of some refreshingly cool lake finds pleasure and enjoyment in his outboard-motor-powered boat.
2015 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 4 July Many cottagers have begun to rethink their summer escape plan.
4. British slang. A man who engages in or solicits sexual activity with other men in a public toilet. Cf. cottage v. 2, cottaging n. 3.
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1971 London Gay Liberation Front Manifesto 4 Cottagers and cruisers will be zealously hunted, while queer-bashers may be apprehended, halfheartedly, after the event.
1984 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Nov. 1289/2 The graffiti..represent the solitary, silent language of the compulsive cottager.
2007 C. Owen Foxtrot Oscar (2008) 171 A prolific cottager, he had discovered the Grosvenor Park toilets six months ago and had never failed to score on every visit.

Compounds

cottager's dance n. Obsolete a kind of traditional formation dance.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > country-dance or dancing > [noun] > specific country-dances
haya1529
trenchmore1552
hay-de-guy1579
country bumpkin1649
sedany1651
Sir Roger de Coverley1685
Frenchmore1696
mermaid1701
Moll Peatley1711
hemp-dressers1756
cottager's dance1851
pop goes the weasel1853
tempête1873
barn dance1892
line dance1961
1851 Lancaster Gaz. 15 Feb. 4/1 The programme consisted of a great variety of dances, including Scotch fours, long-eight reels,..cottager's dance, waltzes, quadrilles, [etc.].
1887 Spons' Househ. Man. 652 Old-Fashioned Dances [for the drawing-room]... Cottagers: 4 people stand for this as in the quadrille; they cross hands in the centre, [etc.].
1897 Hearth & Home 13 May 28/1 Several children took part in the Maypole, Hornpipe, and Cottagers' dances, which were received with acclamation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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