What does pickaninny mean?
Pickaninny means (colloquial, now offensive, ethnic slur) A black child..
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/ˈpɪkənɪni/ · noun
(colloquial, now offensive, ethnic slur) A black child..
Governor,— that will make a good settler,— that's my Pickaninny!
Piccaninnies squatted around absorbing the lesson.
A small white donkey glimmered into sight, and behind it a milk cart, rattling its cans, and behind that ran a small and ragged piccaninny, a child of perhaps seven years, whose teeth were rattling so loudly they sounded like falling pebbles even across the width of the garden.
What a relief it must be for Blair to get out of England. It is said that the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies
The pickaninny was an imagined, subhuman black juvenile who was typically depicted outdoors, merrily accepting (or even inviting) violence. The word (alternatively spelled “picaninny” or “piccaninny”) dates to the seventeenth century, […]
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Pickaninny means (colloquial, now offensive, ethnic slur) A black child..
Common synonyms include piccaninny, picaninny.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Governor,— that will make a good settler,— that's my Pickaninny!
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