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Definitions for: Picayune
[adj] (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"
Webster (1913) Definition: Pic`a*yune", n. [From the language of the Caribs.]
A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See
Fippenny bit. [Local, U.S.]
Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling, petty, piddling, piffling, trivial, unimportant
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