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    picayune

    picayune - Dictionary definition and meaning for word picayune

    Definition
    (adj) (informal) small and of little importance
    Example Sentence
    • 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
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for picayune

picayune: relate it to pico, which means small. so picayune->pico->small or petty things

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PICAYUNE -> PICCOLO + TUNE. A PICCOLO might be mistaken for an INSIGNIFICANTLY small flute; eventhough, it can deliver an earpiercing TUNE.

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Definition: petty, small minded piety--Imagine people chasing a RACOON that foolishly wandered into their church. These people are armed with little PIGGIES and trying to pummel the RACOON to death with them. They are PIGGY COON.

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Main sharab peeke aaya hoon .. main PEE-KE-AAYA-HOON (say this continuously 10 times)...haha you have gre exam and you are wasting time on Picayune (trivial) things..lol..go study.

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