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Pickaninny vs Ninny - What's the difference?

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Ninny is a related term of pickaninny.



As nouns the difference between pickaninny and ninny

is that pickaninny is a black child while ninny is a silly or foolish person.

pickaninny

English

Alternative forms

* piccaninny * picaninny * picinniny * pikinini

Noun

(wikipedia pickaninny) (pickaninnies)
  • (slang, offensive, derogatory) a black child

    • Derived terms

    * pickney

    Descendants

    * Bislama: (l) * Kriol: (l) * Pijin: (l) * Torres Strait Creole: (l) * Tok Pisin: (l)

    References

    ninny

    English

    Noun

    (ninnies)
  • a silly or foolish person
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1607 , author=John Marston , title=What you will , chapter=Act 5, Scene 1 citation , page=three of sheet G3 , passage=Byd.'' ...a good cheeke, an inticing eye, a smooth skinne, a well shapt leg, a faire hand, you cannot bring a wench into a fooles parradize for you?
    ''Sim.     Not I by this garter, I am a foole, a very Ninny I, how call you her? how call you her? }}
  • * "Ninny — that soft, smiling, self-effacing, apologetic fellow, the type who is terribly sorry when you happen to step on his foot, the kind you can borrow money from in the certainty he will never demand you repay it." — (1962)

    • Related terms

    * nincompoop * ninnyish * ninnyism * picaninny, piccaninny, pickaninny