cotton-picking adj.
1. a general term of abuse, second-rate, vulgar, insignificant.
[ | ![]() | Twelve Years A Slave 87: She was a beauty — a picture — a doll [...] None of your thick-lipped, bullet-headed, cotton-picking niggers]. |
![]() | Thieves Like Us (1999) 32: Where’s them cotton-picking sacks? | |
![]() | (con. 1943–5) To Hell and Back (1950) 48: Okay, gourd-head. Get that cotton-picking butt off the ground. | |
![]() | Mad mag. Dec.–Jan. 13: Git your cotton pickin’ hands off that drumstick. | |
![]() | Last Exit to Brooklyn 16: Freddy [...] yelled at them to go fuck their mothers, ya cottonpickin bastards. | |
![]() | Smile Orange I i: You cotton-picking son of a gun! | |
![]() | Black Tide (2012) [ebook] Not so much out of the square [...] as out of your cotton-picking mind. | |
![]() | (con. 1975–6) Steel Toes 117: Cut on me? Are you outta your cottonpickin’ mind? |
2. a euph. for damned adj.
![]() | Sleep of Baby Filbertson and Other Stories (1964) 14: In Santa Fe there’d been too much cotton-pickin’ sunshine. | ‘Sleep of Baby Filbertson’|
![]() | (con. 1944) Big War 286: He saved my cotton-picking ass. | |
![]() | Iron Orchard (1967) 148: I haven’t lost a cotton-pickin’ thing in Odessa. | |
![]() | Daddy Cool (1997) 112: You must be out of your cotton-pickin’ mind! | |
![]() | Atlanta Journal 2 Sept. n.p.: Let’s just forget about the whole cotton-pickin’ thing [R]. | |
![]() | Guardian 14 Nov. 22: I about had a cotton-pickin’ stroke. I hollered for my wife and I said, ‘The dadburned ballots are still in the car’. |