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cotton picking

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cot⋅ton⋅pick⋅in'

[kot-n-pik-uhn]
–adjective Slang.
damned; confounded: That's a cottonpickin' lie.
Also, cot⋅ton⋅pick⋅ing [kot-n-pik-uhn, -pik-ing] .


Origin:
1950–55, Americanism; cotton + pick 1 + -ing 2
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cotton-picking

and cotton-pickin'
  1. mod.
    worthless; damned. (Folksy.) : Who is this cotton-picking bigwig pushing us around?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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