cottoned
SayKOT-uhndUS/ˈkɑt.n̩d/UK/ˈkɒt.n̩d/
- 1Simple past and past participle of cotton.
He finally cottoned on to what they had been planning all along.
Readers soon cottoned to the author's dry sense of humor.
Note
One spelling does two jobs: the finite past (she cottoned the lamp with a new wick) and the participle after have or in the passive (the walls had been cottoned). The literal senses are all transitive, so the form needs an object or a passive subject. Things are cottoned when they are wadded, fitted with a wick, wrapped in cotton fabric, or tarred and covered with bolls, a rough cousin of tar and feather.
cottoned is a form of cotton
cotton, verb: To get on well with someone or something; to have a good relationship. Full entry
- Spelling
- cotton → cottoned: add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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