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Sporting (medicine) and picayune (oh)


Sporting (medicine)


sporting


Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, Sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. Sporting house, a house frequented by sportsmen, gamblers, and the like. Sporting man, one who practices field Sports; also, a horse racer, a pugilist, a gambler, or the like.

<botany> Sporting plant, a plant in which a single bud or offset suddenly assumes a new, and sometimes very different, character from that of the rest of the plant.

Source: Websters Dictionary


picayune (oh)



[Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: picaillon 'small coin', from Proven?al picaioun, from picaio 'money']
small and unimportant
::A few cuts and bruises are picayune compared to what might have happened.