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 Pick a Hole in his Coat (To).Pick’elher’ringe (5 syl.) 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Pickanin’ny.
 
A young child. A West Indian negro word. (Spanish, pequno, little; nino, child.)   1
 


 Pick a Hole in his Coat (To).Pick’elher’ringe (5 syl.) 

 
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