cotton-picking
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.09 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
An intensifier, like "darn", used for emphasis or to signify that something is of little value.
American usage; Colloquial
adj
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cotton, picking.
Example Sentences
- "The season of cotton-picking commences in the latter part of July, and continues without intermission to the Christmas holidays."
- ""Now hold up here just a cotton-picking minute,""
- ""Oh, wait one damn cotton-picking minute," Andy said."
- "I think the President's Adviser on Domestic Affairs should keep his cotton-picking hands off the economic policy for a change."
- "Santana spat, “You've got to be out of your cotton-picking mind. Who the hell would go back to that place?”"
- ""...are not entitled to anything, Mrs. Wright, (referring to one of the appellees), because your son (referring to the deceased, F.A. Wright, Jr.), was a cotton picking Negro.""
Usage
- Uncountable
- American usage
- Colloquial
Inflected Forms
cotton-pickin' (alternative)