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Pickaninʹny

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A young child. A West Indian negro word. (Spanish, pequēno, little; nino, child.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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