Picayune

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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
  
  

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

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  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