nutpicking

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noun

The gathering of nuts from the plants they grow upon.

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Meanings

nutpicking1

nounnutpicking (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe 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

nutpicking2

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of nutpick

Origin

From nut + picking.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

pintucking
Cite this entry
APA

nutpicking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nutpicking

MLA

“nutpicking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nutpicking. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nutpicking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nutpicking.

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