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Date: 2014-04-16 2:05 GMT-05:00
Subject: picayune: Dictionary.com Word of the Day
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Apr. 16, 2014

picayune \pik-ee-YOON, pik-uh-\ adjective 1. of little value or account; small; trifling: a picayune amount. 2. petty, carping, or prejudiced: I didn't want to seem picayune by criticizing. Quotes ...William Arthur Deacon, the more influential critic of the... See full quote -- Mavis Gallant, The Moslem Wife and Other Stories, 1994 Origin Picayune is rooted in the Provençal word picaioun which meant "small copper coin." It is likely derivative of an onomatopoetic base pikk- which sounds like the process of beating and coining copper.

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