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Picayune

Picayune Meaning & Definition
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

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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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