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Piddling
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picayune
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1804, "coin of small value," probably from Louisiana French picaillon "coin worth 5 cents," earlier the French name of an old copper coin of Savoy (1750), from Provençal picaioun "small copper coin," from picaio "money," of uncertain origin. Adjectival ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Picayune is an obsolete term for a coin of small value. Its meaning has been extended to the figurative sense of "trivial" or "of little value". It was originally used in France as the name of a small copper coin ( picaioun or picaillon ), and was later ...
Gazetteer
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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: ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a picayune off-Broadway theater
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
Usage examples of picayune.
The typical picayune paltering of a desk clerk, and I thought that would be an end to it.
No, he just brought those packages of Picayunes that Father left because he thought I might like them.
At this a hand came up to flutter fingers stained with a generation of Picayunes off in the direction of the pond, the sea, the tired waves vainly breaking, where hopes were dupes fears might be liars, could they turn this thing off so they could get down to business?
Spanish inheritance, that leads him to aim at the law or even at a picayune Government clerkship, leaving agriculture, manufacture, engineering or any sort of productive occupation in a sort of tacit disrepute.
A devoutly religious experimental oncologist dying of his own inoperable colorectal neoplastis moans Why oh why Lord do You give this man this idiotic picayune power and I no power over my own ravening colorectal cells.
Almost all of it's picayune and, over time, as it accretes, unpleasant.
A business announcement in the Picayune stated: "Lucy Bosworth, widow of Luther Bosworth, announces that she has purchased the Pickax General Store from John Edwards, who is retiring because of ill health.
Code this and per stirpes that rescuing them from the furnace with the rest of Father's papers while he sat here ready to burn down the house with those vile Picayunes.
Since when has a provincial tractator cared about the picayune details of an estate's legal tax status?
Since when has a provincial tractator cared about the picayune details of an estate’s legal tax status?