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Picayune

Picayune Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Picayune? [adj] (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Picayune: fiddling \| footling \| lilliputian \| little \| Mickey Mouse \| niggling \| petty \| piddling \| piffling \| trivial \| unimportant Related Terms \| Find terms related to Picayune: a continental \| a curse \| a damn \| a darn \| a hoot \| bagatelle \| bauble \| bean \| bibelot \| bickering \| bit \| brass farthing \| button \| captious \| caviling \| cent \| choplogic \| curio \| cursory \| depthless \| detailed \| equivocatory \| evasive \| exact \| farce \| farthing \| feather \| few \| fig \| finicky \| fleabite \| folderol \| footling \| fribble \| frippery \| full \| fussy \| gaud \| gewgaw \| gimcrack \| hair \| hairsplitting \| halfpenny \| hedging \| hill of beans \| immateriality \| inconsequence \| inconsequent \| inconsequential \| inconsequentiality \| inconsiderable \| inconsiderableness \| indifference \| ineffectuality \| inferiority \| insignificance \| insignificant \| irrelevance \| jerkwater \| jest \| joke \| kickshaw \| knickknack \| knickknackery \| little \| littleness \| logic-chopping \| low \| low priority \| marginality \| meager \| measly \| meticulous \| miniature \| minikin \| minute \| mockery \| molehill \| negligibility \| negligible \| nice \| niggling \| nit-picking \| no great shakes \| one-horse \| paltering \| paltry \| particular \| peppercorn \| pettifogging \| pettiness \| petty \| picayunish \| picayunishness \| piddling \| piffling \| pin \| pinch of snuff \| pinprick \| pokiness \| poky \| precise \| puniness \| punk \| puny \| pussyfooting \| quibbling \| rap \| red cent \| row of pins \| rush \| secondariness \| shallow \| shit \| short \| shuffling \| skin-deep \| slightness \| small \| small-beer \| smallness \| small-time \| snap \| sneeshing \| sou \| special \| specific \| straw \| superficial \| tinhorn \| tiny \| toy \| trichoschistic \| trifle \| trifling \| trinket \| trivial \| triviality \| tuppence \| two cents \| two-bit \| two-by-four \| twopence \| unimportance \| unimpressiveness \| unnoteworthiness \| whim-wham See Also \| Picayune In Webster's Dictionary \Pic`a*yune"\, n. [From the language of the Caribs.] A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See {Fippenny bit}. [Local, U.S.]

Picayune Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Picayune?

[adj] (informal terms) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "Mickey Mouse regulations"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

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Picayune In Webster's Dictionary

\Pic`a*yune"\, n. [From the language of the Caribs.]
A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See
{Fippenny bit}. [Local, U.S.]

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