Definitions for picayunes

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picayunes pic·a·yune

Spelling: [pik-ee-yoon, pik-uh-]

IPA: /ˌpɪk iˈyun, ˌpɪk ə-/

Picayunes is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 465 anagrams from letters in picayunes (aceinpsuy).

Definitions for picayunes

noun

1. (formerly, in Louisiana, Florida, etc.) a coin equal to half a Spanish real.
2. any small coin, as a five-cent piece.
3. Informal. an insignificant person or thing.
4. a town in SE Mississippi.

adjective

1. of little value or account; small; trifling:
2. petty, carping, or prejudiced:

Origin of picayunes

1780-90; Provençal picaioun small copper coin (compare French picaillons), derivative of an onomatopoetic base *pikk- beat, here referring to the coining of coppers

Examples for picayunes

I shall not proceed with the play for that picayune sum before me.

If we were only there, our chances wouldn't be worth a picayune.

The administration enthusiastically traded winning the future for a picayune present gain.

She wrote much for the picayune and wrote herself into love as well as fame.

This mystified me, but to object to the tent, of course, would have been picayune.

But his evaluation admitted that portions at the restaurant were “picayune, and desserts are something of a question mark.”

I give him a picayune, now and then; and you see he dresses well.

To see just how picayune the debate got, take a look at the opinions.

They ride like the devil, fight like the devil, but don't care a picayune for anything.

"picayune Butler's coming, coming" has upset my nervous system.