Definition of Pickeninny

Definition of Pickeninny

Pick"a*nin`ny (?), n.; pl. Pickaninnies (#). [Cf. Sp. pequeño little, young.] A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. [U.S. & West Indies]

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

PICKANINNY, n. The young of the Procyanthropos, or Americanus
dominans. It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.

- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

(slang) a young black child

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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