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Definition of Pickaninny

Pickaninny
Pickaninny Pick"a*nin`ny, n.; pl. Pickaninnies. [Cf. Sp. peque[~n]o little, young.] A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. [U.S. & West Indies]

Meaning of Pickaninny from wikipedia

- ****ninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickininnie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese pequenino ('boy, child...
- ****ninny, also spelled picaninny, piccaninnie, piccaninny, and ****ninnie, is a derogatory term for a black child. It may also refer to: Piccaninny...
- ****ninny Buttes is a summit in San Bernardino County, California, in the United States. It has an elevation of 2,999 feet (914 m). The butte is composed...
- quadruple defense instead of "Albino" it is termed a "****ninny" (see: albino and ****ninny). The Albino is, "the four possible moves of a WP [white...
- Antigua and St. Kitts, akin to the standard-English pejorative/epithet ****ninny) and chook (Nigerian Pidgin for "poke" or "stab") which corresponds with...
- mostly retain the look of the stereotypical blackface minstrel. The term ****ninny, reserved for children, has a similarly broadened pattern of use in po****r...
- that the illustrations were, as Langston Hughes expressed it, in the ****ninny style. In more recent editions, both text and illustrations have undergone...
- Sam balances his new possessions, which are racistly depicted in the ****ninny stereotype; the figures are Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Cuba, Philippines and...
- remained a girl—dressed as a Topsy-esque image of the African-American "****ninny" stereotype with bowed pigtails, a large hand-me-down sweater and oversized...
- dogs and children." The alligator bait image is a subtype of the racist ****ninny caricature and stereotype of black children, where they were represented...