pickinini 

A racial slur used to describe a black child

Some little fucking pickinini just jacked my bike!

pickinini by shephen October 11, 2007

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.

pickinini by Timboner March 23, 2008

Honkey Whispering Pickaninny 

If you know what a honkey whisperer is and you know what a Pickaninny is? This has "what you talkin bout Willis" all over it!

A Honkey Whispering Pickaninny is a small version of a a Honkey Whisperer!

Emmanuelle Louis was the best Honkey Whispering Pickaninny that ever graced a camera!

Honkey Whispering Pickaninny by Sean Day Lou Swahili Swag September 3, 2016

pickaninny 

A small black child, too young to be a productive picker in the cotton field.

"Look at that little pickaninny just standing there eating dirt".

pickaninny by SteveOla April 10, 2008

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..."

pickaninnies by Tom Winston April 4, 2005

pickaninny 

an offensive, derogatory term for black children

pickaninny by Anonymous April 29, 2003

pickaninny 

A derogatory term that in English usage refers to black children, or a caricature of them which is widely considered racist. The word is likely derived from the Portuguese pequenino (derived from pequeno, "little").

Pickaninny refers to oft-depicted physical stereotypes of young African slave or African American children: bulging eyes, unkempt hair, red lips and wide mouth into which they stuffed large slices of watermelon.

Today, use of the term by persons of any race in English speaking countries is seen as distasteful, though at one time it was used within African American families to refer to their children in an affectionate manner. Versions of the word are still used in some pidgin dialects, including Caribbean English, where it usually means "child" or "young'un"

Pickaninny (also, piccaninny): Before becoming the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson apologized for any offense caused by an article in which he sarcastically suggested that "the Queen has come to love the Commonwealth, partly because it supplies her with regular cheering crowds of flag-waving piccaninnies."

pickaninny by PCone November 14, 2009