Usually means: Offensive term for Black child.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word pickaninny:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. pickaninny: Merriam-Webster
  2. pickaninny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pickaninny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pickaninny: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pickaninny: Vocabulary.com
  6. pickaninny: Wordnik
  7. pickaninny: Wiktionary
  8. pickaninny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pickaninny: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pickaninny, pickaninny: Dictionary.com
  11. Pickaninny: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Pickaninny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. pickaninny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. pickaninny: Rhymezone
  15. Pickaninny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. PICKANINNY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  17. pickaninny: FreeDictionary.org
  18. pickaninny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. pickaninny: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Pickaninny: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pickaninny (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. pickaninny: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (colloquial, now offensive, ethnic slur) A black child.
▸ adjective:  (now rare) Little, small.

Similar:
piccaninny, picaninny, pickaninnie, picinniny, piccanin, nigfant, niglet, nigglet, niggerboy, pinky, more...

Opposite:
adult, grown-up, mature

Adjectives:
little, cute, black, same, heedless, small, octoroon, mere, poor, sick, newborn

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Similar:
piccaninny, picaninny, pickaninnie, picinniny, piccanin, nigfant, niglet, nigglet, niggerboy, pinky, more...

Opposite:
adult, grown-up, mature

Adjectives:
little, cute, black, same, heedless, small, octoroon, mere, poor, sick, newborn



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