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piccanin

piccanin is the alternative form of pickaninny.

Meaning of pickaninny

Noun

pickaninny (plural pickaninnies)

  1. (colloquial, ethnic, offensive, slur) A black child.
    • Governor,— that will make a good settler,— that's my Pickaninny!1817 January 4, Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Observer, Sydney

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Forms of piccanin

pluralpiccanins

Origin of piccanin

Clipping of pickaninny.

Questions about piccanin

What is piccanin the alternative form of?
Piccanin is the alternative form of pickaninny.

Words near piccanin in the dictionary

  1. piccadils
  2. piccage
  3. piccages
  4. piccalilli
  5. piccalillis
  6. piccanin
  7. piccaninnies
  8. piccaninny
  9. piccanins
  10. Piccard
  11. Piccards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piccanin (page history and authors); pickaninny (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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