Definition of picayunes Picayunes

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Adjective
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"
		fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, trivial
		unimportant not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
		colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech

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picayune (Noun)
A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents; a fippenny bit .
picayune (Noun)
A five-cent piece.
picayune (Noun)
Something of very little value; a trifle: not worth a picayune.
picayune (Adjective)
Petty, trivial; of little consequence; small and of little importance; picayunish.
picayune (Adjective)
Something not worth arguing about.
picayune (Adjective)
An argument, fact, corner case, or other issue raised often intentionally that distracts from a larger issue at hand or does not change a primary supposition, outcome, postulate, premise, conclusion, hypothesis, judgment or recommendation.
picayune (Adjective)
Small-minded: being childishly spiteful, tending to go on about unimportant things.

picayune (n.)
A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit.

picayune
pik-a-yōōn′, n. 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.).—adj. petty. [Carib.]