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pic·a·yune

   
[pik-ee-yoon, pik-uh-]

–adjective Also, pic·a·yun·ish
1. of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
2. petty, carping, or prejudiced: I didn't want to seem picayune by criticizing.

–noun
3. (formerly, in Louisiana, Florida, etc.) a coin equal to half a spanish real.
4. any small coin, as a five-cent piece.
5. Informal: an insignificant person or thing.
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