pikin

Naija

Alternative forms

• pickin, pikini

Etymology

From West Indies: Pickaninny use to refer to babies and more widely referring to small children

Pronunciation

• pìkîn

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Noun

• Small omomo wey dem just born wey still small.

• Pikin suppose collect all the vaccines wey smallsmall children dey collect  — (JOS_09_Wife-And-Mother-In-Law_M__57, A child will have...)

• Child wey don grow wey never mature finish.

• Your pikin don grow comot for di small pikin wey I bin know.  — NSC_2021, Your child is now all grown up and no longer the young child I knew him to be.)
• How dat 'pikin?  — (WAZK_05_Reincarnation_DG__83, How will that child...)

• Person wey no be sabi person.

• You think sey I be pikin for dis job.  — (NSC_Tella_2020, Do you think that I'm a novice in this job.)

Related forms

• Man pikin

Synonyms

• blood.

Translations

• English: child, novice