The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pickaninny \Pick"a*nin`ny\ (p[i^]k"[.a]*n[i^]n`n[y^]), n.; pl. Pickaninnies (p[i^]k"[.a]*n[i^]n`n[i^]z). [Cf. Sp. peque[~n]o little, young.] A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. Now (2001) used primarily in the latter sense, and in that sense often considered derogatory. [U.S. & West Indies]
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of pickaninny English) 2 (plural of pickaninnie English)
Usage examples of "pickaninnies".
Of the slaves in the hold who didn't make it, he said, two were Whitlow pickaninnies name of.
The three (now four--because she'd had the one coming when she cut) pickaninnies they had hoped were alive and well enough to take back to Kentucky, take back and raise properly to do the work Sweet Home desperately needed, were not.
And maybe with the breeding one, her three pickaninnies and whatever the foal might be, he and his nephews would have seven niggers and Sweet Home would be worth the trouble it was causing him.
Me, I'm spraddled wide open down there, like Mammy must of been, after she squirted out us three pickaninnies all at once.
Emancipationists didn’t fare well south of the Hio, and still less the kind of Emancipationist who helped run-off bucks and ewes and pickaninnies get north to French country up in Canada.
Most folks keep up by breeding, but you know all my pickaninnies ended up south, till lately.
Emancipationists didn't fare well south of the Hio, and still less the kind of Emancipationist who helped run-off bucks and ewes and pickaninnies get north to French country up in Canada.
Just as Ellen had done, other plantation mistresses throughout the South had put the pickaninnies through courses of training and elimination to select the best of them for the positions of greater responsibility.
If we went North, we couldn’t let him go to school and associate with Yankee children and have pickaninnies in his class!
And you want to know what I think about that, I hope the fucker starves, and all the little pickaninnies he's spawned, too.