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Word used in US for emphasis
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cotton-picking
Word definitions for cotton-picking in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context US idiomatic colloquial English) An intensifier, like "darn", used for emphasis or to signify that something is of little value. n. The harvesting of cotton
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
as a deprecatory term first recorded in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, but a similar noun meaning "contemptible person" dates to around 1919, perhaps with racist overtones that have faded over the years. Before mechanization, cotton picking was the most difficult ...
Usage examples of cotton-picking.
Which is gold-plated bizarre, because while I'm hands-on-the-controls, the acceleration couch prodding my back and my suit turning into a sauna because I'm all for conserving its resources as long as I have a perfectly functional shuttlecraft providing me with life support, I'm also spinning apart, decohering, as if fingers and toes and eyes and kidneys and guts all suddenly decided that the arrangement that's suited them just fine for the last fifty-odd years simply will not do for another cotton-picking moment.
The orders of the Holy Diet are to net up every cotton-picking scrap of life, Sacred or nonsacred, from this little green mudball—which is what we are to them—and take us back to their universe later on until all of our star systems are sucked dry.