单词 | pickaninny |
释义 | pickaninny /pik"euh nin'ee/, n. , pl. pickaninnies. Offensive. a black child. Also, picaninny, piccaninny. [1645-55; prob. ult. < Pg pequenino, dim. of pequeno small; as a word for "small child," pickaninny and its variants are widespread in English-based creoles of the New World and West Africa; cf. Jamaican E pickney, West African E pickin small child] |
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