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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pic·a·yune /ˌpɪkiˈjun/
 小錢幣,五分錢幣,無聊之物(a.)無聊的,不值錢的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Pic·a·yune n.  A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See Fippenny bit. [Local, U.S.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 picayune
      adj : (informal terms) 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"; "Mickey Mouse
            regulations"; "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" [syn: fiddling,
             footling, lilliputian, little, Mickey Mouse, niggling,
             piddling, piffling, petty, trivial]