cotton

Definition

  • noun: a soft, white material that grows on the seeds of a tall plant and that is used to make cloth
  • noun: a soft usually white fibrous substance composed of the hairs surrounding the seeds of various erect freely branching tropical plants (genus 'Gossypium') of the mallow family
  • verb: to take a liking
  • used with 'to'
  • synonyms: succeed, unite, agree

Examples

  • She didn't do a 'cotton-picking' [='damned, darned'] thing all day.

  • It took a while, but they are finally starting to 'cotton on'.

  • He doesn't 'cotton to' the idea of having children.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) slow you down, keep going. – Keep on. SCHULTZ: Brünhilde Von Schaft, age twenty-seven, “r” on right cheek… Calvin Candie. He owns the fourth biggest cotton plantation in Mississippi, Candyland. – Candyland? – Oh so you've heard of it? – Ain't no slave that ain't heard of Candyland. (..)
    2012 Django Unchained