cotton picking

cotton picking — [cotton pickin ] {adj.}, {slang}, {colloquial} Worthless, crude, common, messy. * /Keep your cotton picking hands off my flowers!/ * /You ve got to clean up your room, son, this is a cotton pickin mess!/ …   Словарь американских идиом

cotton-picking — adjective Date: circa 1952 1. damned used as a generalized expression of disapproval < a cotton picking hypocrite > 2. damned used as an intensive < out of his cotton picking mind Irving Kristol > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

cotton-picking — ☆ cotton picking [kät′ npik΄ən ] adj. Slang worthless, damned, hateful, etc.: used as a general intensive of opprobrium * * * cot·ton pick·ing (kŏtʹn pĭk ĭng) adj. Informal Used as an intensive: a cotton picking fool; out of your cotton picking… …   Universalium

cotton-picking — 1. noun The harvesting of cotton The season of cotton picking commences in the latter part of July, and continues without intermission to the Christmas holidays. 2. adjective a) Of little value, or for emphasis. b) Describes a person who tends to …   Wiktionary

cotton-picking — хлопкоуборочный (американизм) (разговорное) простонародный, простецкий; никуда негодный * mind пустая башка …   Большой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь

Cotton picker — at work The mechanical cotton picker is a machine that automates cotton harvesting in a way that reduces harvest time and maximizes efficiency. Contents …   Wikipedia

cotton — /kot n/, n. 1. a soft, white, downy substance consisting of the hairs or fibers attached to the seeds of plants belonging to the genus Gossypium, of the mallow family, used in making fabrics, thread, wadding, etc. 2. the plant itself, having… …   Universalium

Cotton — /kot n/, n. John, 1584 1652, U.S. clergyman, colonist, and author (grandfather of Cotton Mather). * * * I Seed hair fibre of various plants of the genus Gossypium, in the mallow family, native to most subtropical countries. The shrubby plants… …   Universalium

Cotton — For other uses, see Cotton (disambiguation). Cotton Hi …   Wikipedia

Picking — Pick Pick (p[i^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Picked} (p[i^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. {Picking}.] [OE. picken, pikken, to prick, peck; akin to Icel. pikka, Sw. picka, Dan. pikke, D. pikken, G. picken, F. piquer, W. pigo. Cf. {Peck}, v., {Pike}, {Pitch} to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English