nutpicking

English

Etymology 1

From nut +‎ picking.

Noun

nutpicking (uncountable)

1. The gathering of nuts from the plants they grow upon.
   • 1996, Staughton Lynd, "We are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s:

     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.

Etymology 2

Verb

nutpicking

1. present participle and gerund of nutpick