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- verb Present participle of
cotton .
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Examples
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After using the soap, and having the mammal arranged or bird stuffed ready for "cottoning," brush over the whole of the feathers, legs, toes, and beak, with the following preparation:
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When in Congress, he was a conscience Whig, as opposed to the cotton ones -- that is, for the anti-slavery doctrine and not "cottoning" for the South.
The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams
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I have noticed a fair amount of diligence in keeping rooks off with a lot of "cottoning" being done, (a laborious but effective job).
FWi - All News 2009
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I have noticed a fair amount of diligence in keeping rooks off with a lot of "cottoning" being done, (a laborious but effective job).
FWi - All News 2009
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I have noticed a fair amount of diligence in keeping rooks off with a lot of "cottoning" being done, (a laborious but effective job).
FWi - All News 2008
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I have noticed a fair amount of diligence in keeping rooks off with a lot of "cottoning" being done, (a laborious but effective job).
FWi - All News 2008
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But Rielle is cottoning on to the fact that John sees her, not necessarily as the woman who opened him up sexually, but rather as the bad idea that destroyed his career and tarnished everything he loves.
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As a larger group, Asian Americans have a reputation for not cottoning to Western notions of psychological health—one survey that compared attitudes of Asian American and Caucasian American college students found that Asian Americans were more likely to believe that psychotherapeutic probing caused mental illness.
The Truth About Grief Ruth Davis Konigsberg 2011
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Mother giggled girlishly when we rode in the rickshaw and slowly was "cottoning" to Harry.
Carole Mallory: A Reunion And A Flirtation In Sixties Hong Kong Carole Mallory 2011
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Just one question debs, does that ear lobe nibbling rat have lipstick on cause without that I just can see Bison cottoning up to that.
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