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- noun Plural form of
picaninny .
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Examples
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In more recent times the newspaper was a critic of the London mayor Boris Johnson and attacked his use of the word picaninnies in a newspaper column.
Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2009
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Oh and by the way, he didn't call black people "picaninnies" he called Commonwealther citizens picaninnies.
Racist Slur At Boris Newmania 2007
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There was boiled guineas, cold guineas, Bullocks heads and picaninnies
Kelligrews Soiree 1997
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He was usually attended by such a retinue that only the smallest picaninnies could have been left back at the quarters.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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A group of picaninnies played about a steaming kettle swung upon a cross-stick above an open-air fire.
Virginia: the Old Dominion Cortelle Hutchins
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He sauntered round the room, and took from his pocket oranges and candy, which he distributed among the black picaninnies tumbling over each other on the dirty floor.
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Greyheaded darkies and picaninnies peered with grinning faces over every fence.
Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac William H. Armstrong
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The women of the aboriginals were known as gins, or lubras, the children as picaninnies -- this last, of course, not an aboriginal name.
Peeps At Many Lands: Australia Frank Fox 1917
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Seated on an empty cracker-box in front, surrounded by the ragged picaninnies, sat Dolores, with her sparkling eyes, lips parted, and her black hair hanging loose, -- oblivious to everything except the marionettes.
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Little picaninnies, fishin 'in de doodle-bug holes.
Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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