picayune

4 definitions found

picayune - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Picayune \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.]
     [1913 Webster]
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picayune - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  picayune
      adj 1: (informal) 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"; "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" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian,
             little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty,
             picayune, trivial]

picayune - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Picayune, MS (city, FIPS 57160)
    Location: 30.52875 N, 89.67833 W
    Population (1990): 10633 (4322 housing units)
    Area: 30.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 39466

picayune - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  147 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, small-time, smallness, 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