cotton-picking

adjective

slang.
(intensifier qualifying something undesirable)
you cotton-picking layabout!

If they want better pay for their labor, why didn't they strike in the midst of the cotton-picking?

Finally, in September, when the busy season of cotton picking was at hand, I was unable to leave my cabin.

It is left in this condition until after cotton-picking is over, whether earlier or later.

It is usual, also, in the most hurrying time of cotton-picking, to require the same extra service.

Alston had been on the plantation a few weeks when, toward the last of September, the cotton-picking season opened.

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