Picayune
Meaning of Picayune
adjective
- of little value or significance; petty.
the picayune squabbling of party politicians
noun
a small coin of little value, especially a 5-cent piece.
early 19th century: from French picaillon, denoting a Piedmontese copper coin, also used to mean ‘cash’, from Provençal picaioun, of unknown ultimate origin.
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Hyphenation of Picayune
Picayune
- It consists of 1 syllables and 8 chars.
- Picayune is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
Picayune synonyms
Meaning fiddling:
fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, trivial
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