[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

picayune \pic`ayune"\, 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.
   1913 webster
   1913 webster
see also:
fippenny bit 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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" syn: fiddling,
            footling, lilliputian, little, mickey mouse, niggling,
            piddling, piffling, petty, trivial
see also:
fiddling footling lilliputian little mickey mouse niggling 
piddling piffling petty trivial 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

147 moby thesaurus words for "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

[4] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

picayune, ms city, fips 57160
  location: 30.52875 n, 89.67833 w
  population 1990: 10633 4322 housing units
  area: 30.6 sq km land, 0.1 sq km water
  zip codes: 39466

[5] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

picayune, ms -- u.s. city in mississippi
   population 2000:    10535
   housing units 2000: 4568
   land area 2000:     11.763019 sq. miles 30.466079 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.040986 sq. miles 0.106154 sq. km
   total area 2000:    11.804005 sq. miles 30.572233 sq. km
   fips code:            57160
   located within:       mississippi ms, fips 28
   location:             30.528089 n, 89.680182 w
   zip codes 1990:     39466
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    picayune, ms
    picayune

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