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Picayune

Definition: Picayune

Picayune

Adjective

1. (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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "picayune" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1852. (references)

Note: Picayune \Pic`a*yune"\, noun. [From the language of the Caribs.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Picayune

Synonyms: fiddling (adj), footling (adj), lilliputian (adj), little (adj), niggling (adj), petty (adj), piddling (adj), piffling (adj), trivial (adj). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Picayune, Mississippi

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Picayune is a city located in Pearl River County, Mississippi. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 10,535.

Geography


Picayune is located at 30°31'41" North, 89°40'49" West (30.528089, -89.680182)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 30.6 km² (11.8 mi²). 30.5 km² (11.8 mi²) of it is land and 0.1 km² (0.04 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.34% water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 10,535 people, 4,100 households, and 2,865 families residing in the city. The population density is 345.9/km² (895.6/mi²). There are 4,568 housing units at an average density of 150.0/km² (388.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 62.02% White, 35.92% African American, 0.38% Native American, 0.30% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.18% from other races, and 1.15% from two or more races. 1.15% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 4,100 households out of which 31.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 45.0% are married couples living together, 20.8% have a female householder with no husband present, and 30.1% are non-families. 26.4% of all households are made up of individuals and 11.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.54 and the average family size is 3.06. In the city the population is spread out with 27.0% under the age of 18, 9.4% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 23.0% from 45 to 64, and 15.1% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 36 years. For every 100 females there are 82.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 79.2 males. The median income for a household in the city is $26,958, and the median income for a family is $33,260. Males have a median income of $31,438 versus $20,035 for females. The per capita income for the city is $15,798. 20.8% of the population and 18.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 28.2% are under the age of 18 and 17.6% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Picayune, Mississippi."

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Synonyms within Context: Picayune

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Unimportance

Straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Picayune

English words defined with "picayune": fiddling, footlinginsignificantLilliputian, littleMickey Mousenigglingpetty, piddling, pifflingtrivialunmeaning. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Picayune

DomainTitle

Books

  • Kendall of the Picayune : being his adventures in New Orleans, on the Texan Santa Fe expedition, in the Mexican War, and in the colonization of the Texas frontier (reference)

  • Picayune Creole Cook Book (reference)

  • Street Names & Picayune Histories of New Orleans (reference)

  • The Picayune Creole Cookbook (reference)

  • The Underground Railroad and the Picayune Connection (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Photo Album: Picayune

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Newspaper article from the "New York Times", 6 July 1903, on the ship's construction and career, as related by Captain J.J. Peetz. The piece had originally appeared in the "New Orleans Picayune" (see Photo # NH 79599).Credit: NAVY.

Newspaper article from the "New Orleans Picayune", 1903, giving Captain J.J. Peetz' account of the ship's construction and career.Credit: NAVY.

A group of Washington Correspondents [No.] 7 L.Q. Washington, New Orleans Picayune / / drawn by Paul Renouard.Credit: Library of Congress.

Negro women hoeing, Picayune, Mississippi.Credit: Library of Congress.

Group of women working along railroad tracks hoeing and burning cut grass, Picayune, Mississippi.Credit: Library of Congress.

Lettering sign on drugstore window, Picayune, Mississippi.Credit: Library of Congress.

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Usage Frequency: Picayune

"Picayune" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Picayune" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Cities: Picayune


1. 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
Country: USA

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Expression: Picayune

Expression using "picayune": it's not worth a picayune. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "picayune": Times-picayune.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Picayune

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
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Modern Translations: Picayune

Language Translations for "picayune"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i vockël (fine, minuscule, minute, pettifogging, piddling, pinpoint, potty, puny, slight, teeny, tiny, trifling, wee, wispy), i poshtër (beggarly, blackguardly, caitiff, dastardly, dirt, ignoble, infamous, mean, miscreant, nasty, nefarious, rammish, scoundrelly, scurvy, sneaking, sneaky), i pakët (exiguous, few, lean, limited, little, low, marginal, meager, meagre, measly, modest, narrow, poor, scant, scanty, scarce, scrimpy, skimpy, slender, small, spare, sparing, thin, wee), gjë pa vlerë (dud, dust, fiddlesticks, garbage, lemon, peanuts). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تافهة (bum, nonentity, small beer, tawdry), ‏صغير العقل. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

незначителен (cheap, dinky, fiddling, fractional, frivolous, immaterial, imperceptible, inappreciable, inconsiderable, inessential, inglorious, insignificant, least, little, mean, minor, minute, negligible, niggling, nominal, noteless, nugatory, obscure, one horse, outside, paltry, peddling, pettifogging, petty, piddling, piffling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, pygmy, rabbity, scrubby, slight, small, small time, subfusc, tenuous, third class, tiddly, trifling, trivial, two-by-four, twopenny-halfpenny, unconsidered, unimportant), малоценна вещ, малоценен (chaffy, drossy, third rate), дребна монета (doit), дребен (dinky, dwarf, finical, finicking, finicky, insignificant, little, minor, niggling, paltry, peddling, petty, piddling, pimping, pokey, poky, poor, potty, puerile, puny, pygmy, rabbity, sawed-off, shabby, short, small, small time, small-scale, trifling, trivial, undersized, unimportant, venial). (various references)

   

Czech

  

krejcar, halíř (farthing). (various references)

   

French

  

mesquin (pitiful), insignifiant (piddling, piffling). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

חסר ערך (fiddling, junk, light, paltry, pip squeak, rubbishy, trashy, two bit, twopenny half penny, vain, valueless, worthless). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

gyatra (lame, scummy). (various references)

   

Italian

  

insignificante (inexpressive, insignificant, irrelevant, meaningless, minor, negligible, niggling, petty, piddling, potty, slight, trifling, trivial). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

icayunepay

   

Portuguese

  

sem valor (bum, chaffy, hollow, inconsiderate, naughtiness, nugatory, paltry, peddling, trashy, trifling, useless, vain, valueless, waste, worthless), roubar (abstract, bereave, bone, cabbage, despoil, embezzle funds, extort money, faked, file, grab-all, holdback, kidnapper, loot, lurcher, make away with oneself, nab, pick, piratical, plunder, priggish, purloin, rifle, Rob, rustle, screw out of, scrounge, snitch, snoop, steal, strip, swipe, take away, thieve), reles (bush league, cad, caddish, cheap, hard-grained, paltry), ninharia (Ace, bauble, dab, falderal, fallback, gewgaw, inch, knick knack, little, Nick nack, non essential, nothingness, rap, straw, trifle, trinket), moeda de pequeno valor, moeda de cinco cêntimos (jitterbug), miserável (abject, costive, dismal, evil, godforsaken, hound, logy, meager, misbehave, miscreant, miscreated, miserable, miserly, paltry, pimple, poky, poor, rascally, scaly, scoundrel, scurvy, skinflint, sordid, squalid, wretch, wretched), insignificante (bald, fiddle-faddle, frivolous, inconsiderable, inferior, insignificant, little, mean, negotiable, one horse, paltry, petty, piddling, pimping, pitiable, pony, poor, potty, puny, scrubby, small, trifling, trivial, unimportant, wispy), desprezível (abject, beggarly, caitiff, contemptible, despicable, ignoble, lily livered, little, mean, negligible, paltry, peddling, pitiable, reptile, scurvy, trashy, unworthy, worthless), bagatela (bagatelle, dab, doited, falderal, fangless, fillip, gewgaw, inch, kickshaw, knick knack, Nick nack, nothing, nothing doing, ought, pinion, rap, rot, rubbish, straw, toy, trifle, trinket). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ничтожный (exiguous, fiddling, lamentable, measly, naught, nominal, paltry, pitiful, poxy, twopenny-halfpenny), низкий (deep, dishonourable, give away, hangdog, ignoble, infamous, keen, lousy, low, low down, lowly, mean, nefarious, poor, scummy, scurvy, short, stinkard, vile, wormy), пустяковый (footling, peddling, piddling, poxy, rubbishy, small beer, trifling). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

majušan (one horse, piccaninny, teeny, tiny). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

nadería (trifle), de poco valor (inconsiderable, snipsnap), baladí (banal, negligible, nugatory, trashy, trivial). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

småskuren (fine cut, peddling), obetydlig person (also-ran, nonentity, zilch), obetydlig (baubling, dinky, fiddling, footling, fractional, fractionary, frivolous, futile, inappreciable, inconsequent, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insignificant, little, low, lowly, mean, minute, negligible, nobody, nugatory, one horse, peddling, piddling, slight, tenuous, trivial), litet mynt, futtig (cheap, derisive, derisory, footling, frivolous, futile, mean, measly, paltry, potty). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

beş paralık şey, beş paralık (two bit, worth a penny), adi (abject, base, camp, campy, cheap jack, chintzy, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, contemptible, dastardly, despicable, everyday, groveling, grovelling, gutter, hackneyed, jerkwater, little, low, low class, mean, measly, no class, one horse, ordinary, ornery, picayunish, poky, rubbishy, shoddy, slavish, sleazy, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, vile, vulgar, wormy, yellow dog), önemsiz şey (bagatelle, bauble, cypher, iota, knickknack, makeweight, mickey mouse, molehill, nicknack, no big deal, rush, small beer, stiver, straw, toy, trifle, tuppence, twopence, unessential, unimportant thing), önemsiz (back burner, derisive, derisory, dinky, empty, fiddling, footling, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, inconspicuous, indifferent, inessential, insignificant, jerkwater, minute, negligible, no-account, non essential, nonessential, not healthy, not worth a fig, null, of no account, of no significance, of no worth, one horse, paltry, paper, peanut, peddling, petty, picayunish, piddling, poky, potty, quotidian, scrubby, secondary, slight, small, smalltime, trifling, trivial, tuppeny, unessential, unimportant, unsubstantial, worthless, yeasty). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

нікчемність (futility, nonentity, nullity, punk, shabbiness), підлий (babylonian, base, base-born, beggarly, caddish, caitiff, cheap, dastard, dastardly, dishonorable, dishonourable, grimy, hangdog, hoggish, ignoble, low down, mean-spirited, nefarious, niddering, rascal, reprobate, scabbed, scoundrel, scummy, scurvy, small, sneaking, sneaky, vile, yellow dog), дрібна монета (bit), дрібний (bantam, fractional, hair splitting, little, minute, negligible, niggling, piddling, potty, sectarian, small, small minded, tin-pot). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

vật tầm thường (small beer), vật nhỏ mọn (kickshaw, trifle), vật không đáng kể (fillip, pip-squeak), tầm thường (characterless, fiddle-faddle, fiddling, inconsequential, jerkwater, platitudinarian, platitudinous, poor, prosy, soulless, straw, trivial, unideal, uninsprired), người đáng kể, hèn hạ (abject, base, basely, blithering, despicable, dirtily, dirty, dishonourable, meanly, poor, scabbily, scurvy, shabby, vile), đáng khinh (contemptible, dirty, scaly, scurvy, threepenny, unworthy). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Picayune

Derivations

Words beginning with "picayune": picayunes. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Picayune" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: piacciono, picaune, picayun, picuyune, picyaune, picyune. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Picayune"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "picayune" (pronounced pi'kēyuw"n)
3-y uw" nhewn, immune, impugn.

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Anagrams: Picayune

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-n-p-u-y"

-2 letters: apneic, unciae.

-3 letters: panic, pecan, piney, uncap, uncia, yince.

-4 letters: acne, ayin, cain, cane, cape, cine, cyan, epic, nape, neap, nice, nipa, pace, pain, pane, pean, pein, pian, pica, pice, pina, pine, piny, puce, puna, puny, pyic, pyin, unai, unci, yaup, yean, yipe, yuan, yuca.

-5 letters: ace, ain, ane, ani, any, ape, aye, can.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-n-p-u-y"
 

+1 letter: pecuniary, picayunes.

 

+3 letters: pecuniarily.

 

+4 letters: euphonically, pneumaticity.

 

+5 letters: conceptuality, pneumatically, pneumatolytic, precautionary, unimpeachably, unpredictably, unsympathetic.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Picayune


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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