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pickneys

pickneys is the plural of pickney.

Meaning of pickney

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

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Proper noun capitalized: Pickneys

Pickneys

  1. (plural) plural of Pickney

Questions about pickneys

What is pickneys the plural of?
Pickneys is the plural of pickney.
What part of speech is pickneys?
Pickneys is a proper noun.

Words near pickneys in the dictionary

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

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