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pickney

/ˈpɪk.ni/

pickney noun: a child.

Noun

pickney (plural pickneys)

  1. (Belize, Caribbean, Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, informal) A child.
    • And he tell my father about country and where he can go and he can take him pickney with him and when he say pickney I shake but nobody know that me under the cover.2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 13

Proper noun capitalized: Pickney

Pickney (plural Pickneys)

  1. A surname.

pickney meaning in Bengali

pickney in Bengali

একটি শিশু

Forms of pickney

Noun
pluralpickneys
Proper noun
pluralPickneys

Origin of pickney

From pickaninny.

Questions about pickney

What does pickney mean?
Pickney means a child.
What is pickney in Bengali?
Pickney in Bengali is একটি শিশু. See Pickney meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is pickney?
Pickney can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pickney?
Pickney is pronounced /ˈpɪk.ni/.
What is the plural of pickney?
The plural of pickney is pickneys.

Words near pickney in the dictionary

  1. pickmen
  2. Pickmere
  3. pickmes
  4. pickmire
  5. pickmires
  6. pickney
  7. pickneys
  8. picknick
  9. picknicked
  10. picknicker
  11. picknickers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pickney (page history and authors); Pickney (page history and authors); pickney (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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