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persnickety
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective persnickety has 2 senses
- persnickety(s = adj.all) bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish - (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety"
- persnickety(s = adj.all) pernickety - characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"
CIDE DICTIONARY
persnickety, a.
- Finicky or fussy; demanding attention to petty details; -- of people. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- snobbish; behaving aloofly. [PJC]
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