picayunen.adj.

Brit.

/ˌpɪkəˈjuːn/, U.S.

/ˌpɪkəˈjun/,

/ˌpɪkiˈjun/

Forms: 1800s– picaillon, 1800s– picayune; chiefly U.S. regional (Louisiana) 1800s pecayon, 1800s pécune, 1800s picaion, 1800s piccaiune, 1800s piccalu, 1800s piccayune, 1800s picharoon, 1800s pickalion, 1800s pickaroon, 1800s pickayune.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Occitan. Etymons: French picaillon; Occitan picalhon.

Etymology: < French regional (southern, especially Savoy) picaillon, pécaillon, picayon (1643 as †picailloux in a Lyonnais source, denoting a small coin of foreign origin; compare French picaillons (plural), a slang term for ‘money, cash’ (1746 or earlier in this sense)) and its etymon Occitan picalhon, denoting a Savoyan-Piedmontese coin (see note), and in the extended sense ‘money’, of uncertain origin, probably < Occitan piquar to ring (bells), to knock, strike (1509; of imitative origin) + a suffix, the coins being so named because they would jingle in the pocket.The early history of the Savoyan-Piedmontese coin is not fully clear. It appears that the coin was first minted in 1635 as a copper coin thinly covered with silver and was demonetized already in the following year, but continued to circulate unofficially and, due to its cheapness, was widely imitated outside Savoy. From the south-eastern part of Savoy the word was borrowed into French as a collective term for ‘money, cash’. See further Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch at *pikkare. In forms picharoon , pickaroon apparently influenced by picaroon n.¹ or picaroon n.² (see forms at those entries). It is more likely that the following example refers to the Savoyan-Piedmontese coin than that it represents an earlier occurrence in sense A. 1b:1786 G. M. A. Baretti Tolondron 238 Reader, I will not give what is called in French a picaillon for thy imagination, if thou guesseth not instantly, how high the man jumped at this epiphonema.

Originally and chiefly U.S.

A. n.

a. Originally, in southern United States, esp. Louisiana: a Spanish half-real. In later use: a 5-cent piece or other coin of little value. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Spanish coins

ouncec1520

denara1549

peso1555

marmaduc1571

peseta1780

pisette1785

picayune1805

pic1839

centavo1857

centimo1870

society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > North American coins > U.S.

quarter dollar1615

bit1683

quarter1776

cent1782

dollar1785

dime1786

eagle1786

half-dollar1786

half-eagle1786

sharpshin1804

picayune1805

caser1825

pic1839

double eagle1849

slug1851

hog1859

pine tree money1859

martin bita1884

meter1940

1805 J. F. Watson Jrnl. 4 Nov. in Amer. Pioneer (1843) 2 228 One can't buy anything [at New Orleans] for less than a six cent piece, called a picayune.

1819 Niles' Reg. 16 (Suppl.) 160/2 Sales regular at 1 picaion per bucket full.

1835 J. H. Ingraham South West I. xix. 205 I bought for a piccaiune, the smallest currency of the country, the ‘load of grape’ [etc.].

1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 256/2 Frowenfeld..was greatly relieved to be touched on the elbow by a child with a picayune in one hand and a tumbler in the other.

1912 E. Ripley Social Life in Old New Orleans 29 It is more than fifty years since I have seen one of those old 6¹/₄ cent picayunes.

1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse III. vii. lii. 801 One persistent little urchin..finally got a coin the size of his little toe nail... [He] collapsed by the roadside clutching the picaillon.

1951 W. R. Benét Spirit of Scene 29 [He] later became A Cornet of the Pittsburgh Light Dragoons, Knew Spanish dollars well from picayunes, And where lay fortune.

1993 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch (Nexis) 14 Feb. 6 f In the South, the coins were known as picayunes. In the North, they were called half bits.

b. colloquial. A very small or the least amount of money, wealth, etc. Chiefly in negative contexts, as not worth a picayune, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum

parcelc1400

plack1530

dodkinc1555

triflec1595

denier1597

driblet1659

song1698

Flanders-fortune1699

pin money1702

doit1728

drab1828

picayune1838

sprat1883

shoestring1904

peanut1910

1838 Lady's Bk. (Electronic text) Feb. I have nothing, not one sous—not a picayune to give her!

1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles I. ii. 42 He got possession of these Shakspeare books, and he's never been worth a picayune since that day.

1890 Overland Monthly May 510/2 I don't care a picayune for the others now.

1900 Overland Monthly Feb. 117/2 I will get everya picayune that isa coming to me.

1948 Reader's Digest Dec. 148/1 Don't care a picayune how you waste that boy's time, do you?

1979 M. G. Eberhart Bayou Road xxi. 288 His life wouldn't be worth a picayune.

1997 J. B. Sanford Intruders in Paradise i. 21 No government was worth a picayune, said Jemmy, unless it protected the permanent interest against innovation.

2. colloquial. A worthless or contemptible person; a trivial or unimportant matter or thing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > paltry, mean, or contemptible

turdc1400

shrub1566

skybala1572

peltera1577

whipstart1581

smatchetc1582

squib1586

paltripolitan1588

scrub1589

Jack-a-Lent1596

snotty-nose1604

whipstera1616

whimling1616

whiffler1659

insignificancy1661

insect1684

insignificant1710

pic1839

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whiffmagig1871

sniff1890

picayune1903

1903 Scribner's Mag. 33 508 A pack of jealous picayunes, who bickered while the army starved.

1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §389/1 Insignificant or petty person,..palooka, peanut, person of straw, picayune, [etc.].

1968 Amer. Anthropologist 70 415/1 Picayunes include wishes that Chêng had reversed his cultural sequences..and that he had specified whether site stratigraphies were continuous or not.

1998 Re: Madonna on ECD in alt.fan.madonna (Usenet newsgroup) 23 June The ECD stuff on that is a mere picayune, not worth my putting it into my CD-ROM more than once.

3. With the: that which is picayune.

ΚΠ

1939 C. Morley Lett. of Askance 260 Places where the piddling and the picayune and the petit larceny of life get brushed away and we feel that we are larger than we know.

1974 Sat. Evening Post (U.S.) Jan. 32/3 Protect yourself and your leaders from preoccupation with the trivial and the picayune: let people control their own time; don't nitpick procedures.

1998 J. L. Heilbron Geom. Civilized ii. 76 But in most cases the obvious and the picayune will be left aside.

B. adj.

Of little value; paltry, petty, trifling; unimportant, trivial; mean; contemptible.In quot. 1813 literally: to the value of a picayune.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible

unworthlyc1230

wretcha1250

seely1297

vilec1320

not worth a cress (kerse)1377

the value of a rushc1380

threadbarec1412

wretched1450

miserable?a1513

rascal1519

prettya1522

not worth a whistlea1529

pegrall1535

plack1539

pelting1540

scald1542

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measly1847

poking1850

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vild1853

picayune1856

snide1859

two-cent1859

rummagy1872

faddling1883

finicking1886

slushy1889

twopence halfpenny1890

jerk1893

pissy1922

crappy1928

two-bit1932

piddly1933

chickenshit1934

pissing1937

penny packet1943

farkakte1960

pony1964

gay1978

1813 Cramer's Pittsburgh Almanac 1814 60 The incessant hum of the blabbering (coloured) market women, seated on the ground..by the side of their picharoon (six cent) piles of vegetables.

1837 Congress. Globe 25th Congress 2 Sess. App. 19 The hon. Senator from Kentucky..by way of ridicule, calls this a ‘picayune bill’.

1856 H. Greeley in Greeley or Lincoln 127 The infernal picayune spirit in which it is published has broken my heart.

1872 R. B. Johnson Very Far West xiv. 195 I've rustled upwards from a picayune printin' office down to New Orleens.

1915 New Republic 31 July 336/1 They instinctively regard the critic as puny and picayune.

1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 104 Your picayune in-laws in fat government jobs.

1973 Listener 20 Dec. 849/3 His projects at that point were getting picayune. He was no longer a great baseball-player.

2000 N.Y. Mag. 7 Aug. 46/1 Able to tell you the picayune details of all the hot deals being made in art, film, literature, and real estate—but unable to create anything meaningful themselves.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	picayune
释义	picayunen.adj. Brit. /ˌpɪkəˈjuːn/, U.S. /ˌpɪkəˈjun/, /ˌpɪkiˈjun/ Forms: 1800s– picaillon, 1800s– picayune; chiefly U.S. regional (Louisiana) 1800s pecayon, 1800s pécune, 1800s picaion, 1800s piccaiune, 1800s piccalu, 1800s piccayune, 1800s picharoon, 1800s pickalion, 1800s pickaroon, 1800s pickayune. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Occitan. Etymons: French picaillon; Occitan picalhon. Etymology: < French regional (southern, especially Savoy) picaillon, pécaillon, picayon (1643 as †picailloux in a Lyonnais source, denoting a small coin of foreign origin; compare French picaillons (plural), a slang term for ‘money, cash’ (1746 or earlier in this sense)) and its etymon Occitan picalhon, denoting a Savoyan-Piedmontese coin (see note), and in the extended sense ‘money’, of uncertain origin, probably < Occitan piquar to ring (bells), to knock, strike (1509; of imitative origin) + a suffix, the coins being so named because they would jingle in the pocket.The early history of the Savoyan-Piedmontese coin is not fully clear. It appears that the coin was first minted in 1635 as a copper coin thinly covered with silver and was demonetized already in the following year, but continued to circulate unofficially and, due to its cheapness, was widely imitated outside Savoy. From the south-eastern part of Savoy the word was borrowed into French as a collective term for ‘money, cash’. See further Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch at *pikkare. In forms picharoon , pickaroon apparently influenced by picaroon n.¹ or picaroon n.² (see forms at those entries). It is more likely that the following example refers to the Savoyan-Piedmontese coin than that it represents an earlier occurrence in sense A. 1b:1786 G. M. A. Baretti Tolondron 238 Reader, I will not give what is called in French a picaillon for thy imagination, if thou guesseth not instantly, how high the man jumped at this epiphonema. Originally and chiefly U.S. A. n. 1. a. Originally, in southern United States, esp. Louisiana: a Spanish half-real. In later use: a 5-cent piece or other coin of little value. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > Spanish coins ouncec1520 denara1549 peso1555 marmaduc1571 peseta1780 pisette1785 picayune1805 pic1839 centavo1857 centimo1870 society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > foreign coins > [noun] > North American coins > U.S. quarter dollar1615 bit1683 quarter1776 cent1782 dollar1785 dime1786 eagle1786 half-dollar1786 half-eagle1786 sharpshin1804 picayune1805 caser1825 pic1839 double eagle1849 slug1851 hog1859 pine tree money1859 martin bita1884 meter1940 1805 J. F. Watson Jrnl. 4 Nov. in Amer. Pioneer (1843) 2 228 One can't buy anything [at New Orleans] for less than a six cent piece, called a picayune. 1819 Niles' Reg. 16 (Suppl.) 160/2 Sales regular at 1 picaion per bucket full. 1835 J. H. Ingraham South West I. xix. 205 I bought for a piccaiune, the smallest currency of the country, the ‘load of grape’ [etc.]. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 256/2 Frowenfeld..was greatly relieved to be touched on the elbow by a child with a picayune in one hand and a tumbler in the other. 1912 E. Ripley Social Life in Old New Orleans 29 It is more than fifty years since I have seen one of those old 6¹/₄ cent picayunes. 1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse III. vii. lii. 801 One persistent little urchin..finally got a coin the size of his little toe nail... [He] collapsed by the roadside clutching the picaillon. 1951 W. R. Benét Spirit of Scene 29 [He] later became A Cornet of the Pittsburgh Light Dragoons, Knew Spanish dollars well from picayunes, And where lay fortune. 1993 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch (Nexis) 14 Feb. 6 f In the South, the coins were known as picayunes. In the North, they were called half bits. b. colloquial. A very small or the least amount of money, wealth, etc. Chiefly in negative contexts, as not worth a picayune, etc. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > sum of money > [noun] > small sum parcelc1400 plack1530 dodkinc1555 triflec1595 denier1597 driblet1659 song1698 Flanders-fortune1699 pin money1702 doit1728 drab1828 picayune1838 sprat1883 shoestring1904 peanut1910 1838 Lady's Bk. (Electronic text) Feb. I have nothing, not one sous—not a picayune to give her! 1840 W. G. Simms Border Beagles I. ii. 42 He got possession of these Shakspeare books, and he's never been worth a picayune since that day. 1890 Overland Monthly May 510/2 I don't care a picayune for the others now. 1900 Overland Monthly Feb. 117/2 I will get everya picayune that isa coming to me. 1948 Reader's Digest Dec. 148/1 Don't care a picayune how you waste that boy's time, do you? 1979 M. G. Eberhart Bayou Road xxi. 288 His life wouldn't be worth a picayune. 1997 J. B. Sanford Intruders in Paradise i. 21 No government was worth a picayune, said Jemmy, unless it protected the permanent interest against innovation. 2. colloquial. A worthless or contemptible person; a trivial or unimportant matter or thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > paltry, mean, or contemptible turdc1400 shrub1566 skybala1572 peltera1577 whipstart1581 smatchetc1582 squib1586 paltripolitan1588 scrub1589 Jack-a-Lent1596 snotty-nose1604 whipstera1616 whimling1616 whiffler1659 insignificancy1661 insect1684 insignificant1710 pic1839 squirt1844 whiffmagig1871 sniff1890 picayune1903 1903 Scribner's Mag. 33 508 A pack of jealous picayunes, who bickered while the army starved. 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §389/1 Insignificant or petty person,..palooka, peanut, person of straw, picayune, [etc.]. 1968 Amer. Anthropologist 70 415/1 Picayunes include wishes that Chêng had reversed his cultural sequences..and that he had specified whether site stratigraphies were continuous or not. 1998 Re: Madonna on ECD in alt.fan.madonna (Usenet newsgroup) 23 June The ECD stuff on that is a mere picayune, not worth my putting it into my CD-ROM more than once. 3. With the: that which is picayune. ΚΠ 1939 C. Morley Lett. of Askance 260 Places where the piddling and the picayune and the petit larceny of life get brushed away and we feel that we are larger than we know. 1974 Sat. Evening Post (U.S.) Jan. 32/3 Protect yourself and your leaders from preoccupation with the trivial and the picayune: let people control their own time; don't nitpick procedures. 1998 J. L. Heilbron Geom. Civilized ii. 76 But in most cases the obvious and the picayune will be left aside. B. adj. Of little value; paltry, petty, trifling; unimportant, trivial; mean; contemptible.In quot. 1813 literally: to the value of a picayune. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > paltry, mean, or contemptible unworthlyc1230 wretcha1250 seely1297 vilec1320 not worth a cress (kerse)1377 the value of a rushc1380 threadbarec1412 wretched1450 miserable?a1513 rascal1519 prettya1522 not worth a whistlea1529 pegrall1535 plack1539 pelting1540 scald1542 sleeveless1551 baggage1553 paltering1553 piddling1559 twopenny1560 paltry1565 rubbish1565 baggagely1573 pelfish1577 halfpenny1579 palting1579 baubling1581 three-halfpenny1581 pitiful1582 triobolar1585 squirting1589 not worth a lousea1592 hedge1596 cheap1597 peddling1597 dribbling1600 mean1600 rascally1600 three-farthingc1600 draughty1602 dilute1605 copper1609 peltry?a1610 threepenny1613 pelsy1631 pimping1640 triobolary1644 pigwidgeon1647 dustya1649 fiddling1652 puddlinga1653 insignificant1658 piteous1667 snotty1681 scrubbed1688 dishonourable1699 scrub1711 footy1720 fouty1722 rubbishing1731 chuck-farthing1748 rubbishy1753 shabby1753 scrubby1754 poxya1758 rubbishly1777 waff-like1808 trinkety1817 meanish1831 one-eyed1843 twiddling1844 measly1847 poking1850 picayunish1852 vild1853 picayune1856 snide1859 two-cent1859 rummagy1872 faddling1883 finicking1886 slushy1889 twopence halfpenny1890 jerk1893 pissy1922 crappy1928 two-bit1932 piddly1933 chickenshit1934 pissing1937 penny packet1943 farkakte1960 pony1964 gay1978 1813 Cramer's Pittsburgh Almanac 1814 60 The incessant hum of the blabbering (coloured) market women, seated on the ground..by the side of their picharoon (six cent) piles of vegetables. 1837 Congress. Globe 25th Congress 2 Sess. App. 19 The hon. Senator from Kentucky..by way of ridicule, calls this a ‘picayune bill’. 1856 H. Greeley in Greeley or Lincoln 127 The infernal picayune spirit in which it is published has broken my heart. 1872 R. B. Johnson Very Far West xiv. 195 I've rustled upwards from a picayune printin' office down to New Orleens. 1915 New Republic 31 July 336/1 They instinctively regard the critic as puny and picayune. 1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 104 Your picayune in-laws in fat government jobs. 1973 Listener 20 Dec. 849/3 His projects at that point were getting picayune. He was no longer a great baseball-player. 2000 N.Y. Mag. 7 Aug. 46/1 Able to tell you the picayune details of all the hot deals being made in art, film, literature, and real estate—but unable to create anything meaningful themselves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1805
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