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vb. (context idiomatic English) To like; approve of, accept, or tolerate.
Usage examples of "cotton to".
Dixon didn't cotton to me at all (nor I to him, but that was unimportant) and he did not seem to have any cracks in his armour.
After all, it took us about five thousand years to cotton to the fact that the dolphins are every bit as intelligent as man, yet we were both natives of the same planet, and there were clues aplenty strewn around.
Used by Cotton to cause the death of one of the Cave Trolls during the Battle of Kraggen-cor.
With such an early start, there seemed to be no reason why, with plenty of hot weather during the growing season, the land should not yield a bale of cotton to the acre that fall.
It was difficult to sleep, though, with all those people on the farm and all that cotton to pick.
I'll use my influence to persuade the board of Lavelle Cotton to remove you as chairman.
The man had wanted a permit to sell Texas cotton to the New England mills.
The district attorney stood up to shake hands with him, but was too busy with thoughts of Cotton to bother now with anything else.