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Cotton-picking

adj, noun, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    An intensifier, like "darn", used for emphasis or to signify that something is of little value. US, colloquial, dialectal, idiomatic, offensive

    ""Now hold up here just a cotton-picking minute,""

  2. 2
    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.""

Noun
  1. 1
    The harvesting of cotton uncountable

    "The season of cotton-picking commences in the latter part of July, and continues without intermission to the Christmas holidays."

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