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picaninny

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pic⋅a⋅nin⋅ny

  [pik-uh-nin-ee]
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–noun, plural -nies.
pickaninny.

pick⋅a⋅nin⋅ny

  [pik-uh-nin-ee]
–noun, plural -nies. Offensive.
a black child.
Also, picaninny, piccaninny.

Origin:
1645–55; prob. ult. < Pg pequenino, dim. of pequeno small; as a word for “small child,” pickaninny and its variants are widespread in English-based creoles of the New World and West Africa; cf. Jamaican E pickney, West African E pickin small child
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picaninny

noun
(ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child [syn: pickaninny] 
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