Hypertext Webster Gateway: "picayune"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.]

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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" [syn: {fiddling},
{footling}, {lilliputian}, {little}, {Mickey Mouse}, {niggling},
{piddling}, {piffling}, {petty}, {trivial}]


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