cotton-picking

adjective

US and Canadian slang (intensifier qualifying something undesirable)you cotton-picking layabout!

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Words nearby cotton-picking

cotton mill, cottonmouth, cotton on, cotton picker, cottonpickin', cotton-picking, cotton press, cotton sedge, cottonseed, cottonseed cake, cottonseed meal

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Example sentences from the Web for cotton-picking

Cotton-picking is at once the most difficult and most expensive operation in cotton production.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5|Various
It is usual, also, in the most hurrying time of cotton-picking, to require the same extra service.
Twelve Years a Slave|Solomon Northup
You must not, however, run away with the notion that cotton-picking is a hurried process.
Carl and the Cotton Gin|Sara Ware Bassett
All they are fit for is education for cotton-picking and dish-washing.
Darkwater|W. E. B. Du Bois

They telled me she was a good cook; and they can use her for that, or set her at the cotton-picking.
Uncle Tom's Cabin|Harriet Beecher Stowe

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