The common usage for chicken pickin, can be used as a substitute for stupid. A very effective substitute because usually when using this phrase, the person will be too stupid to realize that someone just called them stupid.
I haven't ever heard it used when someone's being an ass. Down south (only true southerners do this though) if you insult someone, it's usually followed by "bless her/his pea pickin' little heart " take for example, "She doesn't have enough common sense to stay away from the south end of a north bound skunk, bless her pea pickin' little heart." I've lived down south all my life, and love sayings like this. (:
It is just a slang way in the Deep South of emphasizing whatever you're saying. It's like saying "a blamed thing" or "a f***ing thing."
No good, yellow bellied, lily livered, good for nothing, low down, dirty rotten, egg suckin, cotton pickin, two timing, back stabbing, decrepit, unkempt, repugnant, snake in the grass. Enjoy, Evan
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