"cotton to" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "According to Michael Quinion of World Wide Words, \"It has plausibly been suggested it came from the use of mixtures of cotton and other fibres in clothing. In the early 1800s, to cotton to somebody implied that you were drawn or attached to that person. It may be that the idea here is how well a thread of cotton sticks to the surface of cloth.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cottons to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cottoning to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cottoned to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cottoned to",
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        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1858, Andrew Halliday, Frederick Lawrence, Kenilworth:",
          "text": "Her heart's as hard as taxes, and as bad; / She does not even cotton to her dad.",
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          "ref": "1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 7:",
          "text": "“The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He’s got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers! But the mater cottoned to him at once, took him on as secretary—you know how she’s always running a hundred societies?”",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To like; approve of, accept, or tolerate."
      ],
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          "approve"
        ],
        [
          "accept",
          "accept"
        ],
        [
          "tolerate",
          "tolerate"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To like; approve of, accept, or tolerate."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "cotton on"
        }
      ],
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{
  "etymology_text": "According to Michael Quinion of World Wide Words, \"It has plausibly been suggested it came from the use of mixtures of cotton and other fibres in clothing. In the early 1800s, to cotton to somebody implied that you were drawn or attached to that person. It may be that the idea here is how well a thread of cotton sticks to the surface of cloth.\"",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cottons to",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cottoning to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cottoned to",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cottoned to",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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              150,
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          "ref": "1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 7:",
          "text": "“The fellow is an absolute outsider, anyone can see that. He’s got a great black beard, and wears patent leather boots in all weathers! But the mater cottoned to him at once, took him on as secretary—you know how she’s always running a hundred societies?”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To like; approve of, accept, or tolerate."
      ],
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        [
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        ],
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        ],
        [
          "tolerate",
          "tolerate"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To like; approve of, accept, or tolerate."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "cotton to"
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