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pickney en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈpɪk.ni/

Etymology

From pickaninny.

Meanings

1. (Belize, Caribbean, Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, informal) A child.
   • And he tell my father about country and where he can go and he can take him pickney with him and when he say pickney I shake but nobody know that me under the cover. 2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 13:

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