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nutpicking en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From nut + picking.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) 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:

nutpicking en · VERB · etymology 2

Meanings

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of nutpick
   form of nutpick