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English
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Etymology
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Proper noun
1.2.1
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English
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Etymology
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From
cotton
+
-o-
+
-polis
.
Proper noun
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Cottonopolis
(
slang
,
archaic
)
The city of
Manchester
, England.
References
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John Camden Hotten (
1873
)
The Slang Dictionary