| 单词 | picayune |
| 释义 | picayune —picayunishly, adv. —picayunishness, n. /pik'ee yoohn", pik'euh-/, adj. Also, picayunish. Informal. 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. n. 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. [1780-90; < Pr picaioun small copper coin (cf. F picaillons), deriv. of an onomatopoetic base *pikk- beat, here referring to the coining of coppers] Syn. 1. trivial, insignificant. 2. narrow-minded. |
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