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piccaninny

piccaninny 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 piccaninny

pluralpiccaninnies

Questions about piccaninny

What is piccaninny the alternative form of?
Piccaninny is the alternative form of pickaninny.

Words near piccaninny in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piccaninny (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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