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cotton onto

cotton onto is the alternative form of cotton on to.

Meaning of cotton on to

Verb

cotton on to (third-person singular simple present cottons on to, present participle cottoning on to, simple past and past participle cottoned on to)

  1. (slang) To come to know or understand (something).
    • Buuut the Kamchatka eventually showed up, with news: whilst the main fleet had almost triggered a war with the British Empire, she'd managed to outdo them all, by reporting that, not only had she fired three hundred shells in an engagement with three Japanese ships, but, in fact, had shot at a...2019 March 13, Drachinifel, 26:59 from the start, in The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2023
  2. (archaic, slang) Synonym of cotton to (“like, tolerate”).
    Synonyms:
    cotton to

Forms of cotton onto

third-person singular presentcottons onto
present participlecottoning onto
past participlecottoned onto
pastcottoned onto

Questions about cotton onto

What is cotton onto the alternative form of?
Cotton onto is the alternative form of cotton on to.

Words near cotton onto in the dictionary

  1. cotton mill
  2. cotton mills
  3. cotton mouse
  4. cotton on
  5. cotton on to
  6. cotton onto
  7. cotton pad
  8. cotton pads
  9. cotton picker
  10. cotton pickers
  11. cotton pox

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cotton onto (page history and authors); cotton on to (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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