Query

[dcseain]

Is cotton a verb in your dialect of English? What about brook?

Examples:

We don't brook that [a]round here [what] we don't.
He doesn't cotton to that none too well [at all].

I ask because i used cotton in replying to a comment by a New Englander, and it struck me after the fact that she may not understand; but i know she'll ask if she can't figure it out.

Comments

[mobmama.livejournal.com]

"crick" is also used in rural Texas, where i spent several long years. :-)