Oh how I wish I were laying between my lovely cotton sheets right now sleeping blissfully. Getting out of bed at 8am this morning was *not* a good idea.
But my comfy bed not what this entry is about, sadly. It's about cotton. Not the noun, but the verb. Who knew cotton could be used as a verb? Timoni pointed this out to me this morning and I feel it is important enough to tell the world about. You may have been living your life all this time without knowing you could use the word cotton as a verb in your vocabularly, thus severly limiting the amount of things you *could* be saying if you adopted it's use. So here is how you can add the cotton to your lexicon.
intr.v. cot·toned, cot·ton·ing, cot·tons
To take a liking; attempt to be friendly: a dog that didn't cotton to strangers; an administration that will cotton up to the most repressive of regimes.
To come to understand. Often used with to or onto: “The German bosses... never cottoned to such changes”
From now on, you can say things like "I cotton you" instead of the bland and overused "I like you".
"I cottoned him, he started to cotton me back" to show your compassionate attempt at friendship towards another.
The possibilities are endless that you'll start cottoning the word and will begin using it with frequency.
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