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pickny

pickny 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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Questions about pickny

What is pickny the alternative form of?
Pickny is the alternative form of pickaninny.

Words near pickny in the dictionary

  1. picknicked
  2. picknicker
  3. picknickers
  4. picknicking
  5. picknicks
  6. pickny
  7. pickoff
  8. pickoffs
  9. Pickover
  10. Pickovers
  11. pickpack

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pickny (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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