cottonpickin'

[ kot-n-pik-uh n ]

/ ˈkɒt nˌpɪk ən /

damned; confounded: That's a cottonpickin' lie.

Also cot·ton·pick·ing

[kot-n-pik-uh n, -pik-ing] /ˈkɒt nˌpɪk ən, -ˌpɪk ɪŋ/.

Origin of cottonpickin'

An Americanism dating back to 1950–55; cotton + pick¹ + -ing²

Cotton-picking is at once the most difficult and most expensive operation in cotton production.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 |Various
It is usual, also, in the most hurrying time of cotton-picking, to require the same extra service.

Twelve Years a Slave |Solomon Northup
You must not, however, run away with the notion that cotton-picking is a hurried process.

Carl and the Cotton Gin |Sara Ware Bassett
All they are fit for is education for cotton-picking and dish-washing.

Darkwater |W. E. B. Du Bois

They telled me she was a good cook; and they can use her for that, or set her at the cotton-picking.

Uncle Tom's Cabin |Harriet Beecher Stowe

cotton-picking

US and Canadian slang (intensifier qualifying something undesirable) you cotton-picking layabout!