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Definition: Picayune |
PicayuneAdjective1. (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: PicayuneSynonyms: fiddling (adj), footling (adj), lilliputian (adj), little (adj), niggling (adj), petty (adj), piddling (adj), piffling (adj), trivial (adj). (additional references) |
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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Picayune |
| English words defined with "picayune": fiddling, footling ♦ insignificant ♦ Lilliputian, little ♦ Mickey Mouse ♦ niggling ♦ petty, piddling, piffling ♦ trivial ♦ unmeaning. (references) |
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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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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
1. Picayune, MS (city, FIPS 57160) |
Expression using "picayune": it's not worth a picayune. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "picayune": Times-picayune. | |
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| 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. |
| 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 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) 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) majušan (one horse, piccaninny, teeny, tiny). (various references) nadería (trifle), de poco valor (inconsiderable, snipsnap), baladí (banal, negligible, nugatory, trashy, trivial). (various references) 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) 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) 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) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "picayune": picayunes. (additional references) | |
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"Picayune" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: piacciono, picaune, picayun, picuyune, picyaune, picyune. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "picayune" (pronounced pi'kēyuw"n) |
| 3 | -y uw" n | hewn, immune, impugn. |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 69 63 61 79 75 6E 65 |
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