Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Picayune \Pic`a*yune"\, n. [From the language of the Caribs.]
A small coin of the value of six and a quarter cents. See
{Fippenny bit}. [Local, U.S.]
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
picayune
adj 1: (informal) 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"; "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}, {niggling}, {piddling}, {piffling}, {petty},
{picayune}, {trivial}]
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เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย