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cottonpickin'
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[ kot-n-pik-uhn ]
adjective
Slang: Sometimes Offensive.
- damned; confounded (used as an intensifier):
That's a cottonpickin' lie.
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Sensitive Note
Cottonpickin' is most commonly perceived as a Southern regionalism and an older informal expression in American English. However, because there is no clear sense-related reason to invoke the picking of cotton, and because the expression is used as a negative modifier, many people assume it is a reference to slavery or sharecropping. Knowing that this term can evoke a racial connotation associated with chattel slavery, some speakers actively avoid or replace cottonpickin' with a similar euphemism like doggone, and it has become far less frequent since its peak usage in the 1960s.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of cottonpickin'1
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Example Sentences
Examples have not been reviewed.
Dey said dey was jus' lak dem cottonpickin's dey had 'fore de war.
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I ain't never gwine to forgit 'bout dem old cottonpickin's dey had when I was a youngster.
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When dey had done all de cottonpickin' dey could for one night dey stopped for dancin' and all sorts of frolickin'.
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