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"Picayune Butler's coming, coming" has upset my nervous system.
A CONFEDERATE GIRL'S DIARYSARAH MARGAN DAWSON
A week afterward Richling saw him at the Picayune Tier, superintending the unloading of a small schooner-load of bananas.
DR. SEVIERGEORGE W. CABLE
They wudn't let me leave ther boat, ner pay me a picayune, so I just skipped out.
THE DEVIL'S OWNRANDALL PARRISH
Now the Des Moines is a picayune stream, unduly dignified by the appellation of "river."
THE ROADJACK LONDON
She wrote much for the Picayune and wrote herself into love as well as fame.
A young artist in Picayune takes such perfect likenesses, that a lady married the portrait of her lover instead of the original.
De riches' man in Picayune, he recognizes me an' gives me two bits or fo' bits.
SLAVE NARRATIVES: A FOLK HISTORY OF SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES FROM INTERVIEWS WITH FORMER SLAVESWORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION
It made much fun—the bride herself cut the first slice—hoping it might hold the picayune, and thus symbolize good fortune.
DISHES & BEVERAGES OF THE OLD SOUTHMARTHA MCCULLOCH WILLIAMS
You hain't brains enough to make a picayune yourself, and hain't no gratitude when someone else makes it for you.
SI KLEGG, BOOK 6 (OF 6)JOHN MCELROY
For making you think it matters a picayune what I have to eat.
WORDS RELATED TO PICAYUNE
- big zero
- casual
- dinky
- entry level
- exiguous
- immaterial
- inadequate
- inappreciable
- inconsequent
- inconsiderable
- insignificant
- insufficient
- light
- little
- measly
- minor
- negligible
- no biggie
- paltry
- petty
- picayune
- puny
- runt
- scanty
- shoestring
- shrimp
- skimpy
- small
- small potatoes
- small-time
- trifling
- trivial
- two bit
- unconsidered
- unimportant
- wimpy
- worthless
- casual
- dinky
- entry-level
- exiguous
- immaterial
- inadequate
- inappreciable
- inconsequent
- insignificant
- insufficient
- light
- little
- measly
- minor
- negligible
- paltry
- petty
- picayune
- puny
- runt
- scanty
- shoestring
- skimpy
- small
- small potatoes
- small-time
- trifling
- trivial
- two-bit
- unconsidered
- unimportant
- wimpy
- worthless
- base
- casual
- cheap
- contemptible
- frivolous
- inconsequent
- inessential
- inferior
- irrelevant
- junior
- lesser
- light
- little
- lower
- measly
- minor
- narrow-minded
- negligible
- nickel-and-dime
- niggling
- nugatory
- of no account
- paltry
- peanut
- penny-ante
- pettifogging
- picayune
- piddling
- scratch
- secondary
- shabby
- shallow
- shoestring
- slight
- small
- small-minded
- subordinate
- trifling
- two-bit
- unimportant
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