单词 | cottaging |
释义 | cottagingn.ΚΠ 1767 London Mag. Mar. 122/1 Small farmers are defeated of their bread, and the poor increased by the want of workmen for such large occupations, and cottaging of farm houses, that 4 s. or 5 s. in the pound in many places is paid to the poor rate. 2. North American. The action, habit, or practice of staying in a cottage, esp. for a holiday. Cf. cottage v. 1. ΚΠ 1884 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Aug. 122/2 [New Rochelle's] waterside hotel fulfilled the function of a fashionable watering-place... ‘Cottaging’ had not then been invented. 1900 Forest & Stream 23 June 489/2 The love of fishing, camping, cottaging and living in the woods is making tremendous growth. 1998 G. Halseth Cottage Country in Transition 194 The importance of cottaging in the rural-recreational countryside. 2008 T: N.Y. Times Style Mag. 18 May 132 The annual summer expedition that Canadians call ‘cottaging’... Every few years, a fresh wave of urbanites head north for a restorative of wilderness reclusion. 3. British slang. The action of a man engaging in or soliciting sex with another man in a public toilet. Cf. cottage v. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > homosexual sexual activity > specific cottaging1960 tribadism1962 plain sewing1969 bug chasing1999 scissoring2003 tribbing2003 1960 G. Westwood Minority v. 74 Most homosexuals regard ‘cottaging’ as very sordid and look down upon those who resort to this method of finding partners. 1972 Come Together xii. 4/2 This straightaway undermines any obsession with sex for sex's sake, and collapses the secondary sexist structures of cruising, cottaging etc. 1983 Gay News 31 Mar. 4/4 The ‘agent provocateur’ system which brings so many gay men to court on cottaging offences. 2016 Daily Star (Nexis) 23 July Dogging and cottaging have been reported at some beaches. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). cottagingadj. British slang. Of a man: that engages in or solicits sex with another man in a public toilet. Cf. cottage v. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > [adjective] > engaging in or soliciting sex in a public place cottaging1981 1981 K. Plummer Making Mod. Homosexual 213 Certain..homosexual experiences like Warren's middle class gay community and Humphrey's ‘cottaging homosexuals’. 1984 Times Lit. Suppl. 24 Feb. 192/4 Another character we never see is Chateau Charles, a cottaging queen with a penchant for young boys. 2004 Times 8 July (T2 section) 18/5 Thursby is quickly exposed as a weak, spineless, greedy, cottaging, naive, reckless dolt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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