pickaninny christmas
/ˈpɪkənɪni ˌkrɪsməs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.31 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Two or three days were given at Christmas and also at Easter, which the slaves called pickaninny Christmas."
- "In St. Vincent, as late as the 1960s, Carnival was considered the children's Christmas—"pickaninny Christmas" […]"
- "Yet African musical traditions survived, most notably in the annual Jonkonnu masquerade parade, contemptuously dubbed "Pickaninny Christmas" by the whites."
- "Ere Christmas of 1935 had arrived, the Rotary Club's Pickaninny Christmas Tree Party idea had so intrigued the community it was proposed that under-privileged Negro children from all sections of the county be invited to the second party."
Etymology
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Inflected Forms
piccaninny Christmas (alternative)