What is Pickaninny?
1.
an offensive, derogatory term for black children
2.
A common, generally-accepted term used in former times to describe young black boys, who were so pictured and identified in some of the National Geographics magazines from the pre-Depression Era of the 1920's.
"A pickaninny and his daily collection of cotton from the fields of southern Alabama."
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3.
A small black child, too young to be a productive picker in the cotton field.
"Look at that little pickaninny just standing there eating dirt".
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4.
A negro youth. Often seen running around WalMart at midnight on school nights.
A song about a pickaninny:
Mammy's little ninny loves shortnin shortnin!
Mammy's little ninny loves shortnin breat!
Mammy's little ninny loves shortnin shortnin!
Mammy's little ninny loves shortnin breat!
Sweep off the flo!
And make up the bet!
Cause Mammy's little ninny loves shortnin breat!
Mammy's little ninny loves shortnin shortnin!
Mammy's little ninny loves shortnin breat!
Mammy's little ninny loves shortnin shortnin!
Mammy's little ninny loves shortnin breat!
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5.
duragatory slur for a black person, especially a younger or lazier one. originates back to slave times when slaves worked in fields, and a slave who was supposed to be working wasn't "pickin any"
this pickaninny needs to get up off his ass already
i don't wanna see you pickaninny's in my neighborhood anymore
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6.
Is the Jamaican Patois word for child.
Coo yah pickaninny.
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