cotton-picking: meaning & examples
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Meanings:
- Used as an intensifier or mild oath meaning 'damned', 'very', or to express annoyance or emphasis; often considered derogatory because of its historical associations.
Examples
BetaI can't believe that cotton-picking computer crashed again right before my deadline!
I can't believe that very frustrating computer crashed again right before my deadline!
If you don't fix that cotton-picking leak soon, the whole ceiling will collapse.
If you don't fix that very annoying leak soon, the whole ceiling will collapse.
She got so fed up, she said, 'This cotton-picking mess has to end now!'
She got so fed up, she said, 'This very frustrating mess has to end now!'
- Relating to or characteristic of the act of picking cotton; pertaining to cotton-picking workers or communities.
Examples
BetaThe museum exhibit featured tools used during the cotton-picking era in the southern states.
The museum exhibit featured tools used during the act of harvesting cotton in the southern states.
Many families in the region have deep roots in cotton-picking communities dating back generations.
Many families in the region have deep roots in communities characterized by cotton harvesting dating back generations.
She wrote a novel that explores the hardships faced by cotton-picking workers in the 1930s.
She wrote a novel that explores the difficulties faced by people who picked cotton in the 1930s.
The cotton-picking season usually starts in late summer when the crops are ripe for harvest.
The period for harvesting cotton typically begins in late summer when the crops are ready.
Examples:
- EN: You get your cotton-picking tail down here.ES: Trae tu cola recogedora de algodón.
- EN: As Lonesome Rhodes, your old Arkansas traveler goes home to the typical dirt-road, cotton-picking town of Pickett, Arkansas."ES: Mientras el Solitario Rhodes, viejo viajero de Arkansas va a casa al típico pueblito de Pickett, Arkansas".
- EN: The dirt-root, cotton-picking truth.ES: Es la cruda y pura verdad.
- EN: I wished you'd give me the real cotton-picking truth about how you feel on the subject of more and more and more social security.ES: Me gustaría que me dijera qué siente realmente acerca de la creciente seguridad social.
- EN: You gotta take your hat off to them cotton-picking Marines.ES: Hay que quitarse el sombrero ante la Infantería de Marina.
- EN: You're a cotton-picking prince.ES: Eres un príncipe de lo más auténtico.
- EN: I see the same thing on every cotton-picking show.ES: Veo lo mismo en cada programa de caricaturas.
- EN: Remember, keep your cotton-picking fingers off that orbit button.ES: Recuerda mantener tus torpes dedos lejos del botón que dice "Órbita".
- EN: Can you tell me one cotton-picking thing you can do for that kid that I can't?ES: ¿Puedes decirme algo que solo tú puedas hacer por ella y yo no?
- EN: Are you out of your cotton-picking mind? !ES: ¿Es que acaso te has vuelto loco, hermanito?
- EN: Where's that cotton-picking housekeeper of ours?ES: ¿Y esa recolectora de algodón que tenemos por criada?
- EN: Deep, mixed-up, cotton-picking loneliness.ES: Una profunda, confusa, maldita soledad.
- EN: "You keep your cotton-picking hands off of my Jean."ES: "Mantén tus malditas manos alejadas de mi Jean."
- EN: You ain't thinking about going back to no church... ..or you wouldn't be so scared of losing this cotton-picking job of yours.ES: No piensas volver a ninguna iglesia. Si no, no tendrías tanto miedo de perder este trabajo.
- EN: They haven't paid the cotton-picking bill!ES: ¡No pagaron la condenada cuenta!
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