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 Translation for 'piccaninny' from English to French
NOUN   piccaninny | piccaninnies
SYNO picaninny | piccaninny | pickaninny
négrillon {m} [vieilli] [aujourd'hui péj.]piccaninny [pej.]
négrillonne {f} [vieilli] [aujourd'hui péj.]piccaninny [pej.] [Br.]
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Usage Examples English
  • There is a tribe of wigwam-dwelling Native Americans who live on the island, referred to by Barrie as "Redskins" or as the Piccaninny tribe.
  • "Pickney" or "pickiney" meaning child, taken from an earlier form ("piccaninny") was ultimately borrowed from the Portuguese "pequenino" (the diminutive of "pequeno", small) or Spanish "pequeño" ('small').
  • Kamarooka was originally called "Piccaninny Creek Station" after a large pastoral run in the area.
  • Myers Creek, Reedy Creek and Piccaninny Creek flow into Bendigo Creek.
  • Piccaninny crater is an impact structure, the eroded remnant of a former impact crater, situated in northern Western Australia in the Kimberley region.

  • The word for 'child' resembles Portuguese "pequenino" (and English "piccaninny"), which is widespread in West Africa pidgins and creoles.
  • "Piccaninny Walkabout", published in 1957 won the 1958 Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book Children's Book of the Year Award.
  • Previous portrayals of the Piccaninny tribe in "Peter Pan" have been criticized as racist.
  • or Piccaninny Rag in 1898. "Mississippi Rag" was one of the compositions that help popularize the genre known as ragtime.
  • Pickaninny (also picaninny, piccaninny or pickinninie) is a pidgin word for a small child, possibly derived from the Portuguese [...] ('boy, child, very small, tiny').

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