Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
piccaninny .
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- noun offensive A
black child.
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- noun (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child
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Examples
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Nate, when you said "picaninny" in referring to what Sam Malone is not, I was sure you were wrong because I thought a picaninny was named such as a consequence of picking cotton.
Ghizzy Attacks Malone, Again Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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That is certainly true of the "picaninny" songs of Nora Bates sung in
unknown title 2009
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That is certainly true of the "picaninny" songs of Nora Bates sung in
unknown title 2009
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Their trump card, so they thought, was an article in which Johnson had used the term 'picaninny', albeit in the context of a sarcastic vignette about Blair's supposedly patronising attitude to his visitees, on a world tour.
Harry's Place 2009
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Dismembered frog purses + Nazi & picaninny memorabilia.
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Apparently, both spellings picaninny and pickininny are correct.
Ghizzy Attacks Malone, Again Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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Sam proved that he isn't some Negro picaninny boy, he is his own man!
Archive 2005-02-01 Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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Sam proved that he isn't some Negro picaninny boy, he is his own man!
Ghizzy Attacks Malone, Again Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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Charity only could have induced him to take the picaninny, in fact, for he was but
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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The African picaninny has just as much curiosity as his American brother and in ten minutes the whole juvenile population was assembled around us.
An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918
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