Translation examples
noun
I couldn’t watch no sassy little pickaninny every minute.”
no podía estar todo el tiempo vigilando a esa negrita frescales.
One day a pickaninny was happy and the next the light was gone from them;
Un día el negrito era feliz y al siguiente se había apagado por completo;
He accused them all of stealing, called them pickaninnies or whores.
Las acusaba a todas de robar, las llamaba negritas zumbonas o putas.
Three pickaninnies became utterly still in a corner and watched him with rolling eyes.
Tres negritos se inmovilizaron en un rincón y lo contemplaron con los ojos muy abiertos.
Around Cora, pots clanged and pickaninnies squealed over the delights to come.
Alrededor de Cora, las ollas chocaban y los negritos coreaban las delicias que vendrían.
The teacher was only a few years older than her but she made Cora feel like an ignorant pickaninny.
La maestra le sacaba muy pocos años, pero la hacía sentir como una negrita ignorante—.
Old Abraham complained that Mary’s affliction dated back to when she was a pickaninny, but no one listened to him.
El Viejo Abraham se quejó de que la dolencia de Mary databa de cuando era una negrita, pero nadie le escuchó.
Moses instructed one of the pickaninnies to fetch Connelly, even if it meant interrupting the overseer from his Sunday-evening concubinage.
Moses mandó a uno de los negritos a por Connelly, aunque tuviera que interrumpir el concubinato dominical del capataz.
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