■ noun
1》 a small, simple house, typically one in the country.
2》 informal (in the context of casual homosexual encounters) a public toilet.
■ verb [usu. as noun cottaging ] informal perform homosexual acts in a public toilet.
Derivatives
~y adjective
Origin
ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. cotage and Anglo-Latin cotagium , from cot 2 or cote .