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pernickety

Adjective

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

pernickety(s = adj.all) persnickety - characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"

pernickety, a.

Finical or fussy; full of petty details. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

pernickety, adj. colloq.
1 fastidious.
2 precise or over-precise.
3 ticklish, requiring tact or careful handling.

Etymology

19th-c. Sc.: orig. unkn.

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