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[syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
The 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]
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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]
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
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Picayune, MS -- U.S. city in Mississippi
Population (2000): 10535
Housing Units (2000): 4568
Land area (2000): 11.763019 sq. miles (30.466079 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.040986 sq. miles (0.106154 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 11.804005 sq. miles (30.572233 sq. km)
FIPS code: 57160
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 30.528089 N, 89.680182 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39466
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Picayune, MS
Picayune