cotton-picking
US and Canadian slang (intensifier qualifying something undesirable): you cotton-picking layabout!
Words Nearby cotton-picking
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How to use cotton-picking in a sentence
If they want better pay for their labor, why didn't they strike in the midst of the cotton-picking?
An Arkansas Planter | Opie Percival ReadFinally, in September, when the busy season of cotton picking was at hand, I was unable to leave my cabin.
Twelve Years a Slave | Solomon NorthupIt is left in this condition until after cotton-picking is over, whether earlier or later.
Twelve Years a Slave | Solomon NorthupIt is usual, also, in the most hurrying time of cotton-picking, to require the same extra service.
Twelve Years a Slave | Solomon NorthupAlston had been on the plantation a few weeks when, toward the last of September, the cotton-picking season opened.
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