Meaning of pickaninny Christmas | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Easter (Christian feast).
   Caribbean, no-plural, obsolete, offensive
2. Carnival (the period before lent).
   Caribbean, broadly, no-plural, obsolete, offensive
3. Synonym of junkanoo.
   Jamaica, derogatory, no-plural, obsolete, offensive
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pickaninny, Christmas.
   no-plural, offensive

Examples

“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.”

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