| 1. | of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount. |
| 2. | petty, carping, or prejudiced: I didn't want to seem picayune by criticizing. |
| 3. | (formerly, in Louisiana, Florida, etc.) a coin equal to half a Spanish real. |
| 4. | any small coin, as a five-cent piece. |
| 5. | Informal. an insignificant person or thing. |

pic·a·yune (pĭk'ə-yōōn') adj.
[Louisiana French picaillon, small coin, from French, from Provençal picaioun, from picaio, money, perhaps from Old Provençal piquar, to jingle, clink, from Vulgar Latin *piccāre, to pierce; see pique.] pic'a·yun'ish adj. |