picayune : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: picayune	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for picayune
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
picayune adj (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" Synonym(s): fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial
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 U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
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