persnickety

adjectiveB2

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Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more persnickety

Superlative

most persnickety

1.
(US, alt of, standard)US standard form of pernickety.
I have just read the article in your issue for May 16 on dialectic English. The word tempest recalls the surprise I felt at the beginning of three years' residence on Cape Cod to hear the word used commonly as an exact synonym for thunderstorm. Persnickety I have been accustomed to use in the sense attached to perjinkety, that is, over-fastidious. I do not know how the word was acquired or how common its use is.

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persnicketilypersnicketiness

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From persnickety, whence also pernickety. More at pernickety.