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cotton-picking U.S.
The harvesting of cotton; a social gathering for removing the seed from cotton. Also attrib. or as adj.; spec. in slang (orig. Southern U.S.) as a general term of disapproval or abuse, = ‘damned’.
1795J. & E. Pettigrew MS. Let. 3 Oct. (D.A.E.), One of the students was banished..for going to a cotton picking after eight at Knight. 1835J. H. Ingraham South-West II. 126 Placed in the field to take a spell at cotton-picking. 1845Knickerbocker XXV. 426 A lazy nigger in cotton-pickin'-time. 1891Boston (Mass.) Herald 9 Nov., Cotton Picking Machine..The wheels are four feet apart to enable it to cover a row of cotton plants. 1945B. A. Botkin Lay my Burden Down 92 We didn't have no kind of cotton-pickings 'cept just pick our own cotton. 1958Post (N.Y.) 1 June M3, I don't think it's anybody's cotton-pickin' business what you're doing. 1968J. Philips Hot Summer Killing (1969) iii. iii. 161 You have to be a hero or out of your cotton-picking mind. 1970M. Kenyon 100,000 Welcomes xvii. 142 Damn Mickey McQuaid for ever bringing me to this pixilated, cotton-pickin' country. |