cottager meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

Cottager

nounalso spelled Cottager

Etymology From the name of the stadium, Craven Cottage.

Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Soccer, Sports UK Someone connected with Fulham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

noun

UK /ˈkɒtɪd͡ʒə/ · US /ˈkɑtɪd͡ʒɚ/

Etymology From cottage (“small hut”) + -er (demonym suffix); compare cotter.

A person who has the tenure of a cottage, usually also the occupant.

The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager, won my reverence; while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love.1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume II, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 48:
A cottager, I mark’d a throne Of half the world as all my own, And murmur’d at such lowly lot!1827, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Tamerlane and Other Poems:

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I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.1854 September – 1855 January, [Elizabeth Gaskell], “Roses and Thorns”, in North and South. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1855, →OCLC, page 23:

noun

Etymology From cottage (“to have sex in a public lavatory”) + -er (agent noun suffix).

UK, Slang One who engages in sex in public lavatories; a practitioner of cottaging.