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In some senses, cotton-picking is marked as offensive, US, colloquial, idiomatic. Watch for register when choosing this word.
cotton-picking
adj 2noun 1
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3VERB + COTTON-PICKING
keep, wait
COTTON-PICKING + NOUN
andy, minute
PREP.
in, off
Definitions
noun
1
The harvesting of cotton
The season of cotton-picking commences in the latter part of July, and continues without intermission to the Christmas holidays.
adj
1
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,"
"Oh, wait one damn cotton-picking minute," Andy said.
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."
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The season of cotton-picking commences in the latter part of July, and continues without intermission to the Christmas holidays.
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"Now hold up here just a cotton-picking minute,"
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"Oh, wait one damn cotton-picking minute," Andy said.
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I think the President's Adviser on Domestic Affairs should keep his cotton-picking hands off the economic policy for a change.
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