cottager

See also: Cottager

English

Etymology

cottage +‎ -er; compare cotter.

Noun

cottager (plural cottagers)

A person who has the tenure of a cottage, usually also the occupant.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
  I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.
(Britain, slang) One who engages in sex in public lavatories; a practitioner of cottaging.

Synonyms

coscet
cotter

Translations

a person who has the tenure of a cottage

Ido: dometano
Latin: casarius m

Manx: cotteyr m
Scottish Gaelic: màlair m

one who engages in sex in public lavatories

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