piccaninny dawn
(also piccaninny daylight)
noun [mass noun] Australian informal, offensive
The first appearance of daylight: the piccaninny dawn was growing up fast...
- If the blacks are going to attack, they'll not do it before piccaninny dawn.
- It was piccaninny dawn on Calum's second day.
- He pulled the curtains back, settled at the desk, lit a cigarette and watched the beginnings of piccaninny dawn glow.
Origin
1930s: from piccaninny, perhaps in the archaic adjective sense 'very small'.
- Recordite
- record keeper
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- record label
- recordless
- record linkage
- record locking
- record office
- record player
- record producer
- record/reproduce
- recordress
- recordset
- record sleeve
- records office
- record token
- record type
- record–reproduce
- reco-reco
- recoreco
- recork
- recorte
- recount
- recountable
- recountal