"pickney" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-pickney.wav Forms: pickneys [plural]
Etymology: From pickaninny. Head templates: {{en-noun}} pickney (plural pickneys)
  1. (Caribbean, Jamaica, Belize, MLE, MTE, informal) A child. Tags: Belize, Caribbean, Jamaica, Multicultural-London-English, informal

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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  "etymology_text": "From pickaninny.",
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      "args": {},
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
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          "name": "Belizean English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "parents": [],
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        {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Jamaican English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Multicultural London English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 13:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A child."
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        [
          "child",
          "child"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Caribbean, Jamaica, Belize, MLE, MTE, informal) A child."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Belize",
        "Caribbean",
        "Jamaica",
        "Multicultural-London-English",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
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{
  "etymology_text": "From pickaninny.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pickneys",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "pickney (plural pickneys)",
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "Belizean English",
        "Caribbean English",
        "English 2-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Jamaican English",
        "Multicultural London English",
        "Multicultural Toronto English",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings, Oneworld Publications (2015), page 13:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A child."
      ],
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        ]
      ],
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      ],
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        "Belize",
        "Caribbean",
        "Jamaica",
        "Multicultural-London-English",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
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    }
  ],
  "word": "pickney"
}

Download raw JSONL data for pickney meaning in English (1.6kB)

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