picayune
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Noun — A small coin of the value of six-and-a-quarter cents; a Spanish coin with a value of half a real; a fippenny bit.
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Etymology
The noun is borrowed from southern French picaillon, pécaillon, picayon (“type of small foreign coin; (informal, especially in the plural) cash, money”), and from its etymon Occitan picalhon, picaioun (“cheaply made Savoyan-Piedmontese coin that was rapidly demonetized; (by extension) cash, money”), probably from Occit...
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