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piccanin
noun
(
rfc-level, Noun at L4+ not in L3 POS section
)
(South African) (
derogatory
) A small (usually black) child; a tot; a toddler.
1964.
Credo Vusa'mazulu Mutwa:
Indaba, My Children
. This edition 1999. Grove Press ISBN 0802136044 Page 667.
:
The stands at the gate. There are tears in his eyes and hunger in his belly. He is puzzled and scared by what he saw happening the previous night in the place he knows as home. His mother and father had quarreled and he had been awakened by the noise. He had seen his father hit his mother with the "thing-that-chops-wood" and he had seen his mother fall.
Etymology:
Portugese:
pequeno
: small +
ino
(diminutive suffex).
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