Definition of "cotton to" [cotton to]

• To like; approve of, accept, or tolerate. (verb)

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• "This question is interesting to her alone: for to the middle, the Southern and Western States they are of no direct concern; of no more than the culture of tobacco, rice and cotton to Massachusets."
• "Fire-red hair streamed over both her shoulders, pert breasts nudging the well-worn cotton to part the curtain of hair."
• "He and the youngsters seemed to cotton to the new man, and just before Doc Hoover was due to get back they called a special meeting, and retired the old man with the title of pastor emeritus."