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cotton picker

cotton picker noun: someone who harvests cotton.

Noun

cotton picker (plural cotton pickers)

  1. Someone who harvests cotton.
  2. (ethnic, offensive, slur) A black person.

cotton picker meaning in Tamil

cotton picker in Tamil

பருத்திப் பறிப்பவர்

Forms of cotton picker

pluralcotton pickers
alternative formcotton-picker

Origin of cotton picker

The ethnic slur is in reference to black slaves who worked on cotton plantations in the US.

Questions about cotton picker

What does cotton picker mean?
Cotton picker means someone who harvests cotton.
What is cotton picker in Tamil?
Cotton picker in Tamil is பருத்திப் பறிப்பவர். See Cotton picker meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cotton picker?
Cotton picker is a noun.
What is the plural of cotton picker?
The plural of cotton picker is cotton pickers.

Words near cotton picker in the dictionary

  1. cotton on
  2. cotton on to
  3. cotton onto
  4. cotton pad
  5. cotton pads
  6. cotton picker
  7. cotton pickers
  8. cotton pox
  9. cotton pygmy geese
  10. cotton pygmy goose
  11. cotton rat

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cotton picker (page history and authors); cotton picker (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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