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picinniny

picinniny is the alternative spelling 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 picinniny

pluralpicinninies

Questions about picinniny

What is picinniny the alternative spelling of?
Picinniny is the alternative spelling of pickaninny.

Words near picinniny in the dictionary

  1. picilorex
  2. picine
  3. Picinich
  4. Piciniches
  5. picinninies
  6. picinniny
  7. pick
  8. pick 'em
  9. pick 'n' mix
  10. pick 'n' mixes
  11. pick a fight

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Adapted from Wiktionary: picinniny (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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