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

[flyingwolf.livejournal.com]

that's why I emphasized that it was my understanding of the words. I don't think I've heard anyone purposely call anything a crick and mean it to be something smaller than a creek. (I'm from Berks County, PA and had a naturalist for a Grandfather so I've done my share of playing in creeks and doing stream studies)