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SoT: I told you, I'll be doing some pumpkin pickin ', but if you can answer one question --
October 2004 2004
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SoT: I told you, I'll be doing some pumpkin pickin ', but if you can answer one question --
The Unknown Caller 2004
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When God does the "pickin" everything else is secondary (exit polls, talk shows, debates, schemes, dirty politics etc.) g
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Amang the bits o 'lads wi' pickin 'oot the stones.
Geordie Black 2001
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Ups an 'off in the middle o' pickin ', cool as you please, to go to Californey.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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Ups an 'off in the middle o' pickin ', cool as you please, to go to Californey.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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"I ha 'had enow o' folks a comin 'here an' pickin 'my brains and runnin' off wi 'my letters and never givin' me so much as a sixpence."
Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" James Blyth
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"Plenty of it -- for th 'pickin' up," replied the miner.
Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice, or, the Wreck of the Airship Victor [pseud.] Appleton
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Not out an 'out strakin', but jes 'kind o' pickin 'en a pickin'; insultin 'like.
Isle o' Dreams Frederick Ferdinand Moore 1930
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"Goin ', comin', an 'pickin' would take you the whole mornin ', I reckon."
The Wall Between Sara Ware Bassett 1920
bilby commented on the word pickin
Nigerian English - an infant or child.
June 22, 2009