"finickity" meaning in English

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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.",
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          "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.",
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          "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.",
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          "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.",
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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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