Nutpicking
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The gathering of nuts from the plants they grow upon. uncountable
"Nutpicking, along with chicken cleaning and rag sorting, constituted the very bottom of the submarginal industries in St. Louis in the 1930s, and it was in these industries that African American women found sporadic employment."
Verb
- 1 present participle and gerund of nutpick form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Nutpicking, along with chicken cleaning and rag sorting, constituted the very bottom of the submarginal industries in St. Louis in the 1930s, and it was in these industries that African American women found sporadic employment."
Etymology
From nut + picking.
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