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Pickaninny

noun
(pl. pickaninnies)
1.
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child.  Synonyms: picaninny, piccaninny.






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"Pickaninny" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the time, stopping at a hotel where the darky cook was a man who had once worked for him on the trail. 'Frog,' the darky, had married when he quit the colonel's service, and at the time of this fair there was a pickaninny in his family about a year old, and nearly the color of a new saddle. A few of these old cowmen got funny and thought it would be a good joke to have Frog enter his baby at the fair, and Colonel Bob being the leader in the ...
— The Log of a Cowboy - A Narrative of the Old Trail Days • Andy Adams



Words linked to "Pickaninny" :   tiddler, youngster, child, disparagement, nestling, Black person, kid, nipper, small fry, derogation, minor, fry, shaver, black, depreciation, tike, ethnic slur, blackamoor, negroid, tyke, negro



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