cotton-pickingadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˈkɒt.ənˌpɪ.kɪŋ/us/ˈkɑː.t̬ənˌpɪk.ɪŋ/US informal old-fashionedused to add emphasis when you are slightly annoyed:
Just wait one cotton-picking minute, will you?
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Expressions of anger
- bally
- biscuit
- blast
- blasted
- bleeding
- bloody
- dare
- dash
- flip
- flipping
- for crying out loud! idiom
- freaking
- frigging
- pipe
- precious
- sodding
- that (really) takes the biscuit idiom
- that does it! idiom
- what a business! idiom
- what do you mean? idiom
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