Usually means: Outdated, offensive term for Black child.
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  1. piccaninny: Merriam-Webster
  2. piccaninny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. piccaninny: Collins English Dictionary
  4. piccaninny: Vocabulary.com
  5. piccaninny: Wordnik
  6. piccaninny: Wiktionary
  7. piccaninny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. piccaninny: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. piccaninny: Dictionary.com
  10. piccaninny: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. Piccaninny: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. piccaninny: Rhymezone
  13. piccaninny: FreeDictionary.org
  14. piccaninny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. piccaninny: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. piccaninny, piccaninny: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Piccaninny)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of pickaninny [(colloquial, now offensive, ethnic slur) A black child.]

Similar:
pickaninny, picaninny, picinniny, pickaninnie, Blackie, niggie, jiggaboo, blackey, zigaboo, littlein, more...

Adjectives:
little, black, small, tiny, ragged, starved, naked, plenty, white, only
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Similar:
pickaninny, picaninny, picinniny, pickaninnie, Blackie, niggie, jiggaboo, blackey, zigaboo, littlein, more...

Adjectives:
little, black, small, tiny, ragged, starved, naked, plenty, white, only



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