cottager

From cottage +‎ -er; compare cotter.

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cottager (plural cottagers)

1. A person who has the tenure of a cottage, usually also the occupant.
   • 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:

     A cottager, I mark’d a throne
     Of half the world as all my own,
     And murmur’d at such lowly lot —

   • 1855, Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South:

     I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.

2. (British, slang) One who engages in sex in public lavatories; a practitioner of cottaging.

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