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Pickaninny   Listen
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Pickaninny  n.  (pl. pickaninnies)  A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. Now (2001) used primarily in the latter sense, and in that sense often considered derogatory. (U.S. & West Indies)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pickaninny" Quotes from Famous Books



... pickaninny fashion to the back of the yellow boatman, who waded with him into the surf. This was great sport. Staggering and slipping, and wet almost to his shoulders by a swell, the boatman landed Charley in ...
— Gold Seekers of '49 • Edwin L. Sabin

... sensitive and sure. She could substitute for a quarantined team of jumping Arabs in Springfield, Illinois, with hardly more than a sleight of hand through her card index and a telegram or two. She knew that Memphis would not stand for a pickaninny act, and that the same was sure fire in Trenton, and was familiar with every house manager by long-distance-telephone voice. The department was more and more the well-oiled engine under a light steering hand that Lilly wielded ...
— Star-Dust • Fannie Hurst

... "Here I am, pickaninny!" retorted Miss Vere holding him fast in this novel embrace, amid the laughter of the supers. "You're getting as blind as Tommy! Steady, steady now, donkey!—steady—woa!" And in a thrice she stood upright, one foot planted firmly on ...
— Thelma • Marie Corelli



Words linked to "Pickaninny" :   Black person, derogation, depreciation, nestling, disparagement, minor, shaver, nipper, fry, picaninny, child, tyke, small fry, negro



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