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Englische picayune Synonyme

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  

picayune Definition

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

picayune Bedeutung

a fiddling
footling
lilliputian
little
niggling
piddling
piffling
petty
picayune
trivial aa 		(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
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A picayune was a Spanish coin, worth half a real. Its name derives from the French picaillon, which is itself from the Provençal picaioun, the name of an unrelated small copper coin from Savoy. By extension, picayune can mean "trivial" or "of little value".