What does cotton up mean?

cotton up means "ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior".

What is another word for cotton up?

Close synonyms include cozy up, shine up, play up, sidle up, suck up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cotton up a common word?

cotton up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Cotton up — meaning, 5 synonyms and examples

verb

1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior
“She is playing up to the chairman”
Synonymscozy up shine up play up sidle up suck up
Broaderingratiate

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What does cotton up mean?: cotton up means "ingratiate oneself to; often with insincere behavior".

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