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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

  • SoT: I told you, I'll be doing some pumpkin pickin ', but if you can answer one question --

    The Unknown Caller 2004

  • When God does the "pickin" everything else is secondary (exit polls, talk shows, debates, schemes, dirty politics etc.) g

    Obama: 'We need change in America' 2008

  • Amang the bits o 'lads wi' pickin 'oot the stones.

    Geordie Black 2001

  • Ups an 'off in the middle o' pickin ', cool as you please, to go to Californey.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • Ups an 'off in the middle o' pickin ', cool as you please, to go to Californey.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • "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

  • "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

  • Not out an 'out strakin', but jes 'kind o' pickin 'en a pickin'; insultin 'like.

    Isle o' Dreams Frederick Ferdinand Moore 1930

  • "Goin ', comin', an 'pickin' would take you the whole mornin ', I reckon."

    The Wall Between Sara Ware Bassett 1920

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  • Nigerian English - an infant or child.

    June 22, 2009