ψύρα

A. Psyra, a barren islet near Chios, taken as the type of what is insignificant: prov., Ψύρα τὸν Διόνυσον ἄγοντες (saying 'a fig for Dionysus!'), of persons who drink no wine, Cratin. 352; Ψύρα τε τὴν Σπάρτην ἄγεις Id. 112; also called ψυρίη, ἡ, Od. 3.171: ψύριος· ἀκάθαρτος Hsch.: ψυρὶς γῆ barren land, like that of Psyra, Id.