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picayune 音標拼音: [p ,ɪkij'un] n. 小錢幣,五分錢幣,無聊之物
a. 無聊的,不值錢的 小錢幣,五分錢幣,無聊之物無聊的,不值錢的 picayune adj 1: ( informal) 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"; " 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" [ synonym: { fiddling}, { footling}, { lilliputian}, { little}, { niggling}, { piddling}, { piffling}, { petty}, { picayune}, { trivial}] Picayune \ 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.] [ 1913 Webster] [ 1913 Webster] 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
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