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pickaninny
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pickaninny has 1 sense
- pickaninny(n = noun.person) picaninny, piccaninny - (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child; Array is a kind of black, black person, blackamoor, negro, negroid, child, fry, kid, minor, nestling, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster
CIDE DICTIONARY
pickaninny, n. [Cf. Sp. pequeño little, young.].
A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. Now (2001) used primarily in the latter sense, and in that sense often considered derogatory. [1913 Webster]
DEVIL DICTIONARY
pickaninny
n. The young of the _Procyanthropos_, or _Americanus dominans_. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.ROGET THESAURUS
pickaninny
Infant
N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.
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