1. cotton-picking - Noun
2. cotton-picking - Adjective
cotton-picking (uncountable)
The harvesting of cotton
(US, dialectal, idiomatic, colloquial) An intensifier, like "darn", used for emphasis or to signify that something is of little value.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cotton, picking.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgcotton picking
In a paper authored by Gazdar, tasks such as cotton-picking, grain-harvesting, cattle care and weeding largely rely on women’s work, yet go “unappreciated”. Source: Internet
Stanley "Buckwheat" Dural Jr., 68. Musician who rose from a cotton-picking family in southwest Louisiana to introduce zydeco music to the world through his band Buckwheat Zydeco. Source: Internet