Cottage vs Hovel - What's the difference?
cottage | hovel |
A small house; a cot; a hut.
A seasonal home of any size or stature. A recreational home or a home in a remote location.
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, title= (UK, slang, dated) A public toilet.
To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
(intransitive, British, slang) Of men: To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
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An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
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To put in a hovel; to shelter.
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As nouns the difference between cottage and hovel
is that cottage is a small house; a cot; a hut while hovel is an open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc, from the weather.As verbs the difference between cottage and hovel
is that cottage is to stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging while hovel is to put in a hovel; to shelter.cottage
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage ’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”}}
Usage notes
Sense “public toilet” dates from 19th century, now only in gay slang.Derived terms
* cottage cheese * cottage hospital * cottage industryVerb
(cottag)hovel
English
Noun
(en noun)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed vestige of the original common.}}
Verb
- To hovel thee with swine, and rogues forlorn.
- The poor are hovelled and hustled together.