piccanin

Oh, a good boy, fit, speaks English, disease-free, got himself a little piccanin, rides ten miles each way on the bus from the townships to the suburbs to make tea, water the garden, comb out her wigs.

Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

Oh, a good boy, fit, speaks English, disease-free, got himself a little piccanin, rides ten miles each way on the bus from the townships to the suburbs to make tea, water the garden, comb out her wigs.

Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

Our voorlooper was no scraggy piccanin, he was brawny and bearded, an expert Mashona woodman.

Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

It was the big black snake that lived in the ant-hill at the back of the house whose movements Jim and the piccanin had been discussing.

Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

The piccanin was sent off to get water, the kitchen door was safely locked.

Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

He took his time and went at it leisurely, I gathered, with his piccanin astride upon his shoulders.

Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910

Jim and the new piccanin were just discussing the movements of somebody as he arrived.

Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales Arthur Shearly Cripps 1910