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piccaninny noun- an Australian Aboriginal child AUSTRALIA, 1817
Considered offensive. - — Barbara Baynton, Human Toll, p. 119, 1907
- PICCANINNY–A baby, or very young Australian aboriginal. — Gilbert H. Lawson, A Dictionary of Australian Words and Terms, 1924
- — Ion L. Idriess, Over the Range, p. 208, 1947
- — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 140, 1969
- “Gee, it’s a piccaninny!” It was a live baby girl, about ten months old. — Herb Wharton, Cattle Camp, p. 36, 1994
- a small black child; children; occasionally any black person UK, 1785
From Spanish pequeño (small) or Portuguese pequeno (small). Originally applied in the West Indies and US without being considered racist; now highly offensive and derogatory or, in a black-on-black context, judgemental and negative. Also variants “piccanin”, “picaninny”, “pickaninny” and “pickney”. - You should have seen her–in her feed-sack dress, like scared and roll-eyed, pickaninny mud on her knees, crooning “Trouble in Mind” all breathy. — John Clellon Holmes, The Horn, p. 83, 1958
- I saw that there were some kinds in it with Pookie–a pickanniny who resembled a baby unicorn what with a pink-ribboned pigtail standing straight up on her head[.] — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 188, 1965
- “ Just watch my car,” he told Blue, “I don’t want no pickney distressing it, seen?” — Karline Smith, Moss Side Massive, p. 2, 1994
- [S]hould baby fathers take more responsibility for dem pickney? — Donald Gorgon, Cop Killer, p. 89, 1994
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
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