Pickney

name, noun, slang

name, noun, slang ·2 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A child. Belize, Caribbean, Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, informal

    "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."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Example

More examples

"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."

Etymology

From pickaninny.

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