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pic·a·yune

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–adjective Also, pic·a·yun·ish. Informal.

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.

–noun

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.

[Origin: 1780–90; < Pr picaioun small copper coin (cf. F picaillons), deriv. of an onomatopoetic base *pikk- beat, here referring to the coining of coppers

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—Related forms

pic·a·yun·ish·ly, adverb

pic·a·yun·ish·ness, noun

—Synonyms 1. trivial, insignificant. 2. narrow-minded.

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Pic·a·yune

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a town in SE Mississippi. 10,361.

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pic·a·yune Audio Help (pĭk'ə-yōōn') Pronunciation Key
adj.

Of little value or importance; paltry. See Synonyms at trivial.
Petty; mean.

A Spanish-American half-real piece formerly used in parts of the southern United States.
A five-cent piece.
Something of very little value; a trifle: not worth a picayune.

[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.

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picayune

1804, "coin of small value," probably from Louisiana Fr. picaillon "coin worth 5 cents," earlier the Fr. name of an old copper coin of Savoy (1750), from Prov. picaioun "small copper coin," from picaio "money," of uncertain origin.

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picayune
adjective
(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"

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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

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau

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