All 6 Uses of
picayune
in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
- So he felt a moment; and then he smoked a cigar, and read the Picayune, and forgot his little gospel.†
Chpt 1.16 *
- I can learn what does me as much good as that from the Picayune, any time, and smoke a cigar besides; which I can't do, you know, in a church.†
Chpt 1.16
- From him she got many a stray picayune, which she laid out in nuts and candies, and distributed, with careless generosity, to all the children in the family; for Topsy, to do her justice, was good-natured and liberal, and only spiteful in self-defence.†
Chpt 2.20
- "There's a picayune for you to buy candy with, Dodo," said Henrique; "go get some."†
Chpt 2.23
- I give him a picayune, now and then; and you see he dresses well.†
Chpt 2.23
- If we were only there, our chances wouldn't be worth a picayune.†
Chpt 2.39
Definitions:
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(1)
(picayune) small or unimportant; or petty and narrow-minded in attitude
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Picayune is sometimes used to describe a person or their actions as petty or small-minded. Much more rarely, it can reference a small coin used in Spanish America.