cotton-picking
adjective
cot·ton-pick·ing ˈkä-tᵊn-ˌpi-kiŋ 
-ˌpi-kən
offensive
: damned —used as an intensive or as a generalized expression of disapproval
Note: Widely considered offensive, the adjective cotton-picking is seen as belittling labor that millions of Black people were forced to do in the southern United States from the late 18th century and into the 20th century, first as enslaved people and later as sharecroppers.
Word History
First Known Use
1917, in the meaning defined above
- imperate
- imperation
- imperatival
- imperativally
- imperative
- imperatively
- imperativeness
- imperativenesses
- imperatives
- imperator
- imperatorial
- imperatorious
- imperators
- imperatorship
- imperceivable
- imperceptibilities
- imperceptibility
- imperceptible
- imperceptiblenesses
- imperceptibly
- imperceptive
- imperceptiveness
- imperceptivenesses
- imperceptivities
- impercipience