| 词汇 | cotton-pickin’ |
| 词源 | cotton-pickin’. Despicable, wretched, damned; now some- times used in a humorous sense. The term has its roots in the inferior status of poor farmers and field hands in the southern United States and dates back to the 19th century. The word is often heard in the expression “Get your cotton-pickin’ hands off me!” |
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