word of the day :: persnickety

persnickety:

[per-snik-i-tee']

–adjective Informal.

1. overparticular; fussy.

2. snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob.

3. requiring painstaking care.

Origin:

1885-90; orig. Scots, var. of PERNICKETY.

"When the men appeared, the more persnickety ones washed in a tin basin." (Edward Everett Dale, Frontier Ways: Sketches of Life in the Old West)

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