piccininni

An Italian American wash woman.

Don’t be such a Piccinini, mind your own business.

(piccininni - an Italian American wash woman)

by Mrfixitall1 May 24, 2022

pickaninnies

The picaninny (It is also spelled pickaninny and piccaninny) was the dominant racial caricature of Black children for most of this country's history. They were "child coons," miniature versions of Stepin Fetchit. Picaninnies had bulging eyes, unkempt hair, red lips, and wide mouths into which they stuffed huge slices of watermelon. They were themselves tasty morsels for alligators. They were routinely shown on postcards, posters, and other ephemera being chased or eaten. Picaninnies were portrayed as nameless, shiftless natural buffoons running from alligators and toward fried chicken.

Source: Dr. David Pilgrim, Professor of Sociology
Ferris State University

She was one of the blackest of her race; and her round, shining eyes, glittering as glass beads, moved with quick and restless glances over everything in the room. Her mouth half open with astonishment at the wonders of the new Mas'r's parlor, displayed a white and brilliant set of teeth. Her woolly hair was braided in sundry little tails, which stuck out in every direction. The expression of her face was an odd mixture of shrewdness and cunning, over which was oddly drawn, like a veil, an expression of the most doleful gravity and solemnity. She was dressed in a single filthy, ragged garment, made of bagging; and stood with her hands demurely folded in front of her. Altogether, there was something odd and goblin-like about her appearance -- something as Miss Ophelia afterwards said, "so heathenish..."

by Tom Winston April 4, 2005

pickinini

A racial slur used to describe a black child

Some little fucking pickinini just jacked my bike!

by shephen October 11, 2007

Silvia Piccinini

A great gal, beautiful, loyal, an amazing mum, loved one

I love Silvia Piccinini!

by Anne Goeford September 26, 2010

pickinini

A haircut commonly seen worn by black female children in which parts of the hair are separated by hair-bands into multiple stubby, spike-like bunches equivalent in size.

The other day at the laundromat, i saw a rather large black woman with her 3 year-old daughter. The child was dressed in pink shorts, pink sandals, a pink spaghetti-strap shirt, and had a pickinini hairstyle.

by Timboner March 23, 2008

piccinini

A dim-witted person who thinks she amazing but she really not. She has no friends at all

Piccinini

by Barney_boi March 28, 2015