cotton-picking

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The harvesting of cotton uncountable
    — The season of cotton-picking commences in the latter part of July, and continues without intermission to the Christmas holidays.
形容词 adj.
  1. An intensifier, like "darn", used for emphasis or to signify that something is of little value. US,colloquial,dialectal,idiomatic
    — "Now hold up here just a cotton-picking minute,"
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cotton, picking.
    — "...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."

词形变化

cotton-pickin' alternative
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