lastborn vs picayune

lastborn

adj
  • Younger than anyone else in a group. 

  • Born last in a family; youngest in a the family. 

noun
  • The youngest child of a family. 

  • The youngest member of any company or organization. 

picayune

adj
  • Childishly spiteful; tending to go on about unimportant things; small-minded. 

  • Of little consequence; small and of little importance; petty, trivial. 

noun
  • A person regarded as unworthy of respect or useless; also, something of very little value; a trifle. 

  • An argument, fact, or other issue raised (often intentionally) that distracts from a larger issue or fails to make any difference. 

  • 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. 

How often have the words lastborn and picayune occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )