Persnickety

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Persnickety \Per*snick"et*y\, a.
     1. Finicky or fussy; demanding excessive attention to petty
        details or niceties; unduly particular; fastidious; -- of
        people. [Colloq.]
  
     Syn: finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, painstaking,


          pernickety, pernicketty, punctilious.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
  
     2. Snobbish; behaving aloofly. [Colloq.]
  
     Syn: pernickety, pernicketty. [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  persnickety
       adj 1: used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or
              arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate
              family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and
              uppity and persnickety" [syn: {bigheaded}, {snooty}, {snot-nosed},
               {snotty}, {stuck-up}, {too big for one's breeches}, {uppish}]
       2: characterized by excessive precision and attention to
          trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety
          school teacher" [syn: {pernickety}]