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Kevn Klein
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08-25-2006 11:28
From: Billybob Goodliffe do you know where that figure of speech comes from? It used to be a derogatory term for farmhands and day laborers. Who tells you this crapola. And even if you were right, what in the hell does that have to do with how I used it? Read up on it, then remove foot. cotton-picking (American & Australian, informal) something that you say before a noun to express anger. Get your cotton-picking feet off my chair! Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms © Cambridge University Press 1998 cot·ton-pick·ing [ ktn-pkng ] adj. Informal Used as an intensive: a cotton-picking fool; out of your cotton-picking mind. The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. © 1996-2004 yourDictionary.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved. I mean really, which dictionary are you using? |
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pandastrong Fairplay
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08-25-2006 11:30
From: Kevn Klein Who tells you this crapola. And even if you were right, what in the hell does that have to do with how I used it?
Read up on it, then remove foot.
cotton-picking (American & Australian, informal)
something that you say before a noun to express anger. Get your cotton-picking feet off my chair!
Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms © Cambridge University Press 1998
cot·ton-pick·ing [ ktn-pkng ]
adj. Informal
Used as an intensive: a cotton-picking fool; out of your cotton-picking mind.
The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
© 1996-2004 yourDictionary.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
I mean really, which dictionary are you using? Hey Sailor!
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Billybob Goodliffe
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08-25-2006 11:31
From: Kevn Klein Who tells you this crapola. And even if you were right, what in the hell does that have to do with how I used it?
Read up on it, then remove foot.
cotton-picking (American & Australian, informal)
something that you say before a noun to express anger. Get your cotton-picking feet off my chair!
Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms © Cambridge University Press 1998
cot·ton-pick·ing [ ktn-pkng ]
adj. Informal
Used as an intensive: a cotton-picking fool; out of your cotton-picking mind.
The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
© 1996-2004 yourDictionary.com, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
I mean really, which dictionary are you using? neither of those address the origins of the phrase. Now for a history lesson Back before there were mechanical means to pick cotton, you hand to do it by hand. The people who did this job were called "cotton pickers" which was a derogatory term since most cotton pickers were uneducated and poor.
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Kevn Klein
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08-25-2006 11:48
From: Billybob Goodliffe neither of those address the origins of the phrase. Now for a history lesson
Back before there were mechanical means to pick cotton, you hand to do it by hand. The people who did this job were called "cotton pickers" which was a derogatory term since most cotton pickers were uneducated and poor. Let us assume for a minute that were true, even though it's not exclusively American. Please answer my question... "what in the hell does that have to do with how I used it?" And why did you make a big deal out of it? My my, are you that PC? |
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Billybob Goodliffe
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08-25-2006 11:52
From: Kevn Klein Let us assume for a minute that were true, even though it's not exclusively American. Please answer my question... "what in the hell does that have to do with how I used it?"
And why did you make a big deal out of it? My my, are you that PC? I don't give a rats ass about being PC, I just figured you didn't know the origins of that phrase and that it carries a negative stigma. I also correct people that call the rebel flag a symbol of racism. I wasn't making a big deal out of it, I merely asked if you had ever picked cotton, then you went off.
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08-25-2006 11:58
From: Billybob Goodliffe I don't judge guys for "cuteness"  I do.
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Kevn Klein
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08-25-2006 12:06
From: Billybob Goodliffe I don't give a rats ass about being PC, I just figured you didn't know the origins of that phrase and that it carries a negative stigma. I also correct people that call the rebel flag a symbol of racism. I wasn't making a big deal out of it, I merely asked if you had ever picked cotton, then you went off. You did make a deal out of it. The context in which I used it was meant to show outrage (albeit sarcastic), which is the correct application for the phrase. Next question, why did you ask if I picked cotton? Are you just curious? Or was there a point? |
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Billybob Goodliffe
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08-25-2006 12:07
From: Kevn Klein You did make a deal out of it.
The context in which I used it was meant to show outrage (albeit sarcastic), which is the correct application for the phrase.
Next question, why did you ask if I picked cotton? Are you just curious? Or was there a point? it was a curious question that also had a point, I was testing to see if you knew the origin of the phrase.
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Astrid Ophelia
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08-25-2006 12:30
Cotton-Picking
(Source: Historical Dictionary of American Slang)
Believe it or not the adjective cotton-picking comes from Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes cartoons and is used as a general adjective of disapproval, similar to damned. From a 1952 cartoon:
Get your cotton-pickin' hooks offa me!
Bugs may not have been the first to use it, but he gets credit for first recorded use.
But the noun cottonpicker is older. It dates to around 1919 and refers to a contemptable person. From Joel Chandler Harris's Dizzed: "What are these boys from the South? Are they cotton-pickers, corn-crackers, stump jumpers, ridge-runners or bog-leapers?"
It has also served as a derogatory term for a black person since at least 1930. While cottonpicker has distinct racist overtones, the adjective cotton-picking does not carry them, instead being a reference to the unpleasant nature of the work.
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