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Definition of Piccanin
1. Noun. (South African) (derogatory ethnic slur) A small (usually black) child; a tot; a toddler. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Piccanin
1. a little child [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Piccanin
Literary usage of Piccanin
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"After supper on the evening I speak of, we moved off in the usual procession—Dove
and the light waggon going first, " piccanin," our waggon boy, ..."
2. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1891)
"'piccanin,' as he was always called, ... and it was ' piccanin ' who always picked
out a hot ember from the fire for our pipe-lights, and performed other ..."
3. In New South Africa: Travels in the Transvaal and Rhodesia by Harold Lincoln Tangye (1900)
"... all shapes, ages, and sizes being represented, from the full-bodied sufferer
from adipose tissue to the skinny piccanin of ten. The different effects of ..."
4. Jock of the Bushveld by Percy Fitzpatrick (1907)
"... was treated like a piccanin—Ugh ! It was horrible ! Intolerable ! and say : "
Aug ! Ang-a-funa ! ..."
5. Rhodesia and Its Government by Harry Craufuird Thomson (1898)
"I also took this photograph of the messenger of one of the native commissioners
who passed by the farm, attended by a piccanin to ..."
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