pickaninny Christmasとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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

発音

• IPA: /ˈpɪkənɪni ˌkrɪsməs/
• enPR: pĭ’kənĭnē krĭs’məs

名詞

pickaninny Christmas (plural not attested) (now offensive)

1. (Caribbean, obsolete) Easter (Christian feast).
   • 2004 [1873], Rev. William James Gardner, “A History of Jamaica”, in West Indian Studies, number 17, London: Frank Cass and Company Limited, →ISBN, page 99:

     Two or three days were given at Christmas and also at Easter, which the slaves called pickaninny Christmas.

   1. (by extension) Carnival (the period before lent).
      • 1999, Wallace W. Zane, Journeys to the Spiritual Lands, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Vincentian Context, page 144:

        In St. Vincent, as late as the 1960s, Carnival was considered the children's Christmas—"pickaninny Christmas"  […]

2. (Jamaica, derogatory, obsolete) Synonym of junkanoo.
   • 2003, Rough Guides, The Rough Guide to Jamaica, APA Publications, published 2015, →ISBN:

     Yet African musical traditions survived, most notably in the annual Jonkonnu masquerade parade, contemptuously dubbed "Pickaninny Christmas" by the whites.

3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pickaninny,‎ Christmas.
   • 1937 December, L. Mell Glenn, “Our 'Pickaninny' Christmas Party”, in The Rotarian, volume 51, number 6, Rotary International, page 43:

     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.

参照

• “piccaninny Christmas, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.