Is it a vegetable?
2007-02-03 10:01:16 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Its a carnivirious shrew from eastren sri lanka. very sharp teeth. watch out!
2007-02-03 10:07:10 · answer #1 · answered by Jon L 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not a vegtable..
Wikipedia definaition here:: cut and paster ....sorry.
Pickaninny (also picaninny) is a pidgin word form which may be derived from the Portuguese pequenino ("little") via Lingua franca. According to one hypothesis, pidgin has the same etymology.
In the Southern United States, it was long used to refer to African American children. This use of the term is believed to have originated with the character of Topsy in Uncle Tom's Cabin. The term was still in some popular use in the US as late as the 1930s, but has largely fallen out of use and is now considered offensive.
Reproduction of an old, tin sign advertising Picaninny Freeze, a frozen treat.It is in widespread use in Melanesian pidgin and creole languages such as Tok Pisin of Papua New Guinea, as the word for "child" (or just young, as in the phrase pikinini pik, meaning piglet). In certain dialects of Caribbean English, the words pickney and pickney-negger (pronounced "pick-knee" and "pick-knee nay-ga" respectively) are used to refer to children. In Nigerian and Cameroonian Pidgin English, the term used is "picken". In Chilapalapa, a pidgin language used in Southern Africa, the term used is "pikanin".
2007-02-03 18:11:56 · answer #2 · answered by Lavender 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Picaninny is an old term for a black child. It is no longer acceptable in polite speech.
2007-02-03 18:09:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
they used to sell a little pink piece of chewing gum called pickaninnie
2007-02-03 23:32:28 · answer #4 · answered by avid-hunter6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL In my language it means a little person (child).
2007-02-03 18:09:20 · answer #5 · answered by sins 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no it is not,,,, it is a racial slur
2007-02-03 18:08:59 · answer #6 · answered by cmhurley64 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋