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cottery

UK/ˈkɒtəɹi/

cottery adjective: tangled (of hair).

Adjective

cottery (comparative more cottery, superlative most cottery)

  1. (dialectal, rare) Tangled (of hair).
    • Prior had looked across the heaving backs and seen a boy, about his own age, standing pressed back against the wall, his white, still face half hidden by a mass of cottery black hair.1993, Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door (The Regeneration Trilogy), Penguin, published 2014, page 456

Forms of cottery

comparativemore cottery
superlativemost cottery

Questions about cottery

What does cottery mean?
Cottery means tangled (of hair).
What part of speech is cottery?
Cottery is an adjective.
How do you pronounce cottery?
Cottery is pronounced /ˈkɒtəɹi/ (UK).

Words near cottery in the dictionary

  1. cottering
  2. cotterless
  3. Cotterman
  4. Cottermans
  5. cotters
  6. cottery
  7. Cottesmore
  8. Cottian
  9. Cottian Alps
  10. cotticed
  11. cottid

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