pickney
/ˈpɪkni
/noun West Indian
A child: me and the pickney have to survive some way...
- Now please don't get me wrong, I don't believe in spoiling kids at all, and I don't feel that I was raised as a pwoil pickney (spoiled child) at all.
- I didn't pick up on this perverted undertone when I was a pickney, did you?
- That must have been drummed into the head of the elderly man's wife when she was a pickney.
The word pickney is derived from piccaninny but has different connotations. Piccaninny is now usually regarded as an offensive racial slur for a black child, whereas pickney is commonly used to mean ‘child’ in West Indian English and in that context does not generally have offensive or racial overtones
Origin
Contraction of piccaninny.