persnickety
121pernickety — persnickety, fastidious, finicky, finicking, finical, *nice, dainty, particular, fussy, squeamish Analogous words: exacting, demanding, requiring (see DEMAND): annoyed, vexed, irked (see ANNOY) …
122squeamish — ñnicky, ñnicking, finical, particular, fussy, persnickety, pernickety, fastidious, *nice, dainty Analogous words: exacting, demanding, requiring (see DEMAND): hypercritical, *critical, faultfinding, caviling, captious, carping …
123nice — adj 1. agreeable, pleasant, winning, winsome, taking, delightful, attractive, likable; cheering, cheerful, amusing, humorous; amiable, friendly, cordial, genial, congenial; charming, gracious, generous, warm hearted, sympathetic, understanding,… …
124old-womanish — adj finical, finicky, hard or difficult or impossible to please, fussy, Inf. fuss budgety, Inf. persnickety; overparticular, overfastidious, overmetic ulous; prim, priggish, prudish, overmodest; strait laced, hidebound, fuddy duddy, stiff necked; …
125fussy — adjective 1) he s very fussy about what he eats Syn: particular, finicky, fastidious, hard to please, faddish; informal pernickety, choosy, picky; Brit.; informal faddy; N.Amer.; informal persnickety 2) a fussy bridal gown …
126pernickety — per•nick•et•y [[t]pərˈnɪk ɪ ti[/t]] adj. inf persnickety • Etymology: 1800–10; orig. Scots; of uncert. orig.; cf. per in other expressive words in Scots, e.g., pergaddus thump, clatter, perskeet fastidious per•nick′et•i•ness, n …
127pernickety — meaning ‘fussy, fastidious’, is a 19c word of Scottish origin which has spread to all English speaking areas. In AmE, the form persnickety is also used …
128choosy — [adj] fussy, discriminating dainty, eclectic, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicky, nice, overparticular, particular, persnickety*, picky, prissy, select, selective; concept 404 Ant. undemanding, unfastidious, unfussy …
