cotton-picking
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cotton-picking
noun
- The harvesting of cotton The season of cotton-picking commences in the latter part of July, and continues without intermission to the Christmas holidays.
adjective cotton-pickin'
- An intensifier, like "darn", used for emphasis or to signify that something is of little value. "Now hold up here just a cotton-picking minute,"
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cotton, picking. "...are not entitled to anything, Mrs. Wright, (referring to one of the appellees), because your son (referring to the deceased, F.A. Wright, Jr.), was a cotton picking Negro."
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title = {cotton-picking},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/cotton-picking},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
