- of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount.
- petty, carping, or prejudiced: I didn't want to seem picayune by criticizing.
- (formerly, in Louisiana, Florida, etc.) a coin equal to half a Spanish real.
- any small coin, as a five-cent piece.
- an insignificant person or thing.
- a town in SE Mississippi.
- of small value or importance
- mean; petty
- the half real, an old Spanish-American coin
- any coin of little value, esp a five-cent piece
