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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Pickaninny  \Pick"a*nin`ny\,  n.;  pl  {Pickaninnies}.  [Cf.  Sp 
  peque[~n]o  little,  young.] 
  A  small  child;  especially,  a  negro  or  mulatto  infant.  [U.S.  & 
  West  Indies] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  pickaninny 
  n  :  (offensive)  a  Black  child  [syn:  {piccaninny},  {picaninny}] 
 
  From  THE  DEVIL'S  DICTIONARY  ((C)1911  Released  April  15  1993)  [devils]: 
 
  PICKANINNY,  n.  The  young  of  the  _Procyanthropos_,  or  _Americanus 
  dominans_.  It  is  small  black  and  charged  with  political  fatalities. 
 
 




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