"finickity" meaning in All languages combined

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        "2": "finicky",
        "3": "pernickety",
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      "expansion": "blend of finicky + pernickety",
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  "etymology_text": "Possibly a blend of finicky + pernickety",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more finickity",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most finickity",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1993 October 7, David Covey, “Re: unix is user-friendly”, in comp.unix.user-friendly (Usenet), retrieved 2008-09-21:",
          "text": "It's great when you've taken the time to have persuade someone to explain to you the ludicrously finickity way it wants a particular command typing in. Very powerful, but not for end-users.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Neil Tennant, The Taming of the True, →ISBN, page 327:",
          "text": "We see, then, that some systems can be unreasonably finickity about the use one may make of assumptions for the sake of argument, especially with a rule like the rule of conditional proof.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, House of Commons International Development Committee, Parliament of Great Britain, Development assistance in Iraq: Interim Report : Seventh Report of Session 2004-05, →ISBN, page 9:",
          "text": "Q62 Mr Bercow: But £86 million is very precise. It is not £85 million, it is not £90 milllion; it is £86 million. […] I am sorry if you think I am being finickity; I am being very finickity about it but I believe rightly.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Michael Winner, Winner Takes All, →ISBN, page 11:",
          "text": "I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular."
      ],
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        [
          "Fastidious",
          "fastidious"
        ],
        [
          "fussy",
          "fussy"
        ],
        [
          "meticulous",
          "meticulous"
        ],
        [
          "particular",
          "particular"
        ]
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        "(usually said of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular."
      ],
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        "said of a person"
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        {
          "word": "fastidious"
        }
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      "ipa": "/fəˈnɪk.ɪ.ti/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ˌfɪnˈɪk.ɪ.ti/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪkɪti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "finickity"
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      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly a blend of finicky + pernickety",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more finickity",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most finickity",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
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  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1993 October 7, David Covey, “Re: unix is user-friendly”, in comp.unix.user-friendly (Usenet), retrieved 2008-09-21:",
          "text": "It's great when you've taken the time to have persuade someone to explain to you the ludicrously finickity way it wants a particular command typing in. Very powerful, but not for end-users.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1997, Neil Tennant, The Taming of the True, →ISBN, page 327:",
          "text": "We see, then, that some systems can be unreasonably finickity about the use one may make of assumptions for the sake of argument, especially with a rule like the rule of conditional proof.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, House of Commons International Development Committee, Parliament of Great Britain, Development assistance in Iraq: Interim Report : Seventh Report of Session 2004-05, →ISBN, page 9:",
          "text": "Q62 Mr Bercow: But £86 million is very precise. It is not £85 million, it is not £90 milllion; it is £86 million. […] I am sorry if you think I am being finickity; I am being very finickity about it but I believe rightly.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Michael Winner, Winner Takes All, →ISBN, page 11:",
          "text": "I got most of the money to pay for all this by stealing. It was very wrong. Today I'm so finickity that I fired one of my staff for nicking twenty-pence worth of curtain hangers from Barkers because he couldn't be bothered to wait at the till queue.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular."
      ],
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          "fussy",
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        ],
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        ],
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        "(usually said of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details; meticulous and particular."
      ],
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        "said of a person"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "usually"
      ]
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    },
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      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "fastidious"
    }
  ],
  "word": "finickity"
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