cottage

Etymology
Late, from and , from ,  + , from , , probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from ; compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬, both from /. However, also compare Dutch and 🇨🇬.

Old Northern French is probably from 🇨🇬, cognate of 🇨🇬 of same  origin.

Slang sense “public toilet” from 19th century, due to resemblance.

Noun

 * 1) A small house.
 * 2) A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
 * 3)  A public lavatory.
 * 4)  A meeting place for homosexual men.
 * 1)  A public lavatory.
 * 2)  A meeting place for homosexual men.
 * 1)  A meeting place for homosexual men.
 * 1)  A meeting place for homosexual men.

Translations

 * Albania: visele
 * Arabic: كُوخ
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:, caseta
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: krowji
 * Esperanto: dometo
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: palloza, cabana, cafúa
 * German:, ,
 * Irish: teach beag, teachín
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: کووخ
 * Latin:, tugurium
 * Macedonian: ку́ќарка, ку́ќичка, ко́либа
 * Malayalam:
 * Mòcheno: hitt
 * Norman: caûmiéthe, caûminne
 * Persian: ,
 * Plautdietsch: Kot
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:,  , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ку̏ћица
 * Roman: kȕćica
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: tyddyn

Verb

 * 1) To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
 * 2)  To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) cottage cheese a cheese curd product