"piccanin" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "piccanins",
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        "plural"
      ]
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  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "pickaninny"
        }
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1964. Credo Vusa'mazulu Mutwa: Indaba, My Children. This edition 1999. Grove Press →ISBN Page 667.\nThe piccanin stands at the gate. There are tears in his eyes and hunger in his belly. He is puzzled and scared by what he saw happening the previous night in the place he knows as home. His mother and father had quarreled and he had been awakened by the noise."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 57",
          "text": "And then one boy came back into the water to help me, a Black piccanin, I believe his name was Mpilo […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of pickaninny"
      ],
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          "pickaninny",
          "pickaninny#English"
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      ],
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        "(South Africa, Australia) Alternative form of pickaninny"
      ],
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    }
  ],
  "word": "piccanin"
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    {
      "form": "piccanins",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "piccanin (plural piccanins)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "pickaninny"
        }
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        "Australian English",
        "English countable nouns",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
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        "South African English"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1964. Credo Vusa'mazulu Mutwa: Indaba, My Children. This edition 1999. Grove Press →ISBN Page 667.\nThe piccanin stands at the gate. There are tears in his eyes and hunger in his belly. He is puzzled and scared by what he saw happening the previous night in the place he knows as home. His mother and father had quarreled and he had been awakened by the noise."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 57",
          "text": "And then one boy came back into the water to help me, a Black piccanin, I believe his name was Mpilo […].",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of pickaninny"
      ],
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          "pickaninny#English"
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        "(South Africa, Australia) Alternative form of pickaninny"
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    }
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