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    pickney
    /ˈpɪkni/

    noun

    • 1. a child: West Indian "me and the pickney have to survive some way"

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  3. a childish or immature person. 7. a member of a family or tribe; descendant. a child of Israel. 8. a person or thing regarded as the product of an influence or environment. a child of nature. 9. English Midlands and Western England dialect.

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  4. English Translation. Child or children. Definition. Someone who is a child. To pluralize "pickney", add "dem" to the end, e.g. "pickney dem". Example Sentences. Patois: Di pickney dem very naughty, dem mus bi punished. English: The children are very naughty, they must be punished. Related Words.

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    Derived from English pickaninny. Compare Bajan pickney, Bislama pikinini, Pijin pikinini, and Tok Pisin pikinini.

    IPA(key): /ˈpɪknɪ/
    (when stressed) IPA(key): /ˈpɪkɪnɪ/
    Hyphenation: pick‧ney

    pickney (plural pickney dem, quantified pickney) (Cassidy/JLU orthography spelling pikni) 1. child 1.1. A: O much pickney yuh gat? B: Mi av a yute an two daughter. 1.1.1. A: How many childrendo you have? B: I have a son and two daughters. 1.1. 2020, Martha Warren Beckwith, compiler, Jamaica Anansi Stories, →ISBN: 1.1.1. “An' he have a bone-hole; wh...

  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › PickaninnyPickaninny - Wikipedia

    Pickaninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickininnie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese pequenino ('boy, child, very small, tiny'). [1] It has been used as a racial slur for African American children and a pejorative term for Aboriginal children of the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand.

  6. pickney What does pickney‎ mean? pickney (English) Origin & history From picaninny. Noun pickney (pl. pickneys) (Caribbean, informal) A child.

  7. Define pickney. pickney synonyms, pickney pronunciation, pickney translation, English dictionary definition of pickney. n dialect sometimes offensive Caribbean a child Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991,...

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