pickaninny Christmas

名词 n.
发音 pĭ’kənĭnē krĭs’məs

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Easter (Christian feast). Caribbean,no-plural,obsolete,offensive
    — Two or three days were given at Christmas and also at Easter, which the slaves called pickaninny Christmas.
  2. Easter (Christian feast).; Carnival (the period before lent). Caribbean,broadly,no-plural,obsolete,offensive
    — In St. Vincent, as late as the 1960s, Carnival was considered the children's Christmas—"pickaninny Christmas" […]
  3. Synonym of junkanoo. Jamaica,derogatory,no-plural,obsolete,offensive
    — Yet African musical traditions survived, most notably in the annual Jonkonnu masquerade parade, contemptuously dubbed "Pickaninny Christmas" by the whites.
  4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pickaninny, Christmas. no-plural,offensive
    — 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.

词形变化

piccaninny Christmas alternative

词源

piccaninny (“black child”) + Christmas. First attested in 1834.
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