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nutpicking

nutpicking noun: the gathering of nuts from the plants they grow upon. Also the present participle and gerund of nutpick.

Noun

nutpicking (uncountable)

  1. The gathering of nuts from the plants they grow upon.
    • Nutpicking, along with chicken cleaning and rag sorting, constituted the very bottom of the submarginal industries in St. Louis in the 1930s, and it was in these industries that African American women found sporadic employment.1996, Staughton Lynd, "We are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s

Also used as

nutpicking is also the present participle and gerund of nutpick.

Origin of nutpicking

From nut + picking.

Questions about nutpicking

What does nutpicking mean?
Nutpicking means the gathering of nuts from the plants they grow upon.
What part of speech is nutpicking?
Nutpicking is a noun.

Words near nutpicking in the dictionary

  1. nutpeckers
  2. nutpick
  3. nutpicked
  4. nutpicker
  5. nutpickers
  6. nutpicking
  7. nutpicks
  8. nutraceutic
  9. nutraceutical
  10. nutraceutically
  11. nutraceuticals

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