picayune
ˌpɪkiˈjun-
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picayune
(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
A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.
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picayune
Formerly, in Florida, Louisiana, and adjacent regions, the Spanish half-real, equal to 1⅙ of a dollar, or 6¼ cents; now, the five-cent piece or any similar small coin. -
picayune
Small; petty; of little value or account: as, picayune politics.
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Picayune
pik-a-yōōn′ a small coin worth 6¼ cents, current in United States before 1857, and known in different states by different names (fourpence, fippence, fip, sixpence, &c.) -
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Picayune
petty
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary From the language of the Caribs
Susan Poag/The Times-Picayune archive Catch shares have been used in the US since 1990, and now cover 13 fisheries, including Gulf red snapper and Atlantic surf clams. nola.com
Eliot Kamenitz/The Times-Picayune Amanda Hill and her grandmother Dolores Hill have faced some huge life challenges from their home in Violet. nola.com
Rusty Costanza/The Times-Picayune Louisiana education Superintendent John White. nola.com
View full size Times-Picayune archive The 2009 Essence Music Festival crowd dances to the sounds of Al Green performing in the Superdome. nola.com
Rusty Costanza / The Times-Picayune Jared Sullinger can draw fouls and get offensive rebounds two things the Hornets need. nola.com
Dinah Rogers/The Times-Picayune archive One Eyed Jacks offers an appropriately dramatic setting for touring alternative rock bands and eclectic locals. nola.com
Enlarge Rusty Costanza, The Times-Picayune RUSTY COSTANZA / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE Herbert Thomasson walks up a levee on the edge of the Morganza Floodway about six miles south of Morganza on Wednesday, May 18, 2011. nola.com
The ordination will be held at St Paul Lutheran Church in Picayune, Wagoner said. picayuneitem.com
View full size Times-Picayune archive The Whitney Bank, St Roch branch, in 1931. nola.com
Photos by Ted Jackson / The Times-Picayune Husband-wife upholstering team Joe and Marilyn Foucheaux flip a sofa on its back as they get ready to remove its damaged covering in their Bywater workshop. nola.com
PICAYUNE — Preliminary investigation shows Pearl River County could have its 18th overdose death so far this year, but the case is still under investigation. picayuneitem.com
PICAYUNE — For nine days in November, beginning November 10th and ending November 18th, the Pearl River County SPCA is joining a national life-saving movement by offering a "9 Lives for $9" special pricing on cats aged nine-months or older. picayuneitem.com
TED JACKSON / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE. nola.com
Photos by Susan Poag / The Times-Picayune Lucianne and Joe Carmichael planned their home so that nature would come first. nola.com
Matthew Hingle, The Times-Picayune Chef Kornfeld says the soup should be spicy, "but not mind-blowing like the Thais like it". nola.com
I ain't worth a picayune at it. "A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen" by
This letter was received by The New Orleans Times-Picayune. "New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915" by
Last night, five citizens were arrested, on no charge at all, and carried down to Picayune Butler's ship. "A Confederate Girl's Diary" by
This mystified me, but to object to the tent, of course, would have been picayune. "The Prairie Mother" by
I shall not proceed with the play for that picayune sum before me. "Desert Dust" by
It sounds at first like rather picayune saving but it counts up at the end of the year. "One Way Out" by
Did he want to begin in a picayune, obscure way? "Jennie Gerhardt" by
I haven' got a picayune of that money pwesently! "Dr. Sevier" by
New Orleans Times-Picayune, Oct. 1, 19, 26, Nov. 10, 28, Dec. 9, 12, 15, 18. "Negro Migration during the War" by
This picayune sordidness, and vulgarity and decay? "Rope" by