word of the day: persnickety
a word that is just really fun to say
persnickety \per-SNIK-i-tee\, adjective:
1. Overparticular; fussy.
2. Snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob.
3. Requiring painstaking care.
The point here is to make your animal understand that its upstairs neighbour is exceptionally persnickety about territory.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Persnickety dates back to the late 1800s. It is a variant of the Scots word pernickety, which is of uncertain origin. Pernickety is perhaps related to other Scots words with the per- prefix, like perskeetwhich meant “fastidious.”
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word of the day: persnickety
a word that is just really fun to say
persnickety \per-SNIK-i-tee\, adjective:
1. Overparticular; fussy.
2. Snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob.
3. Requiring painstaking care.
The point here is to make your animal understand that its upstairs neighbour is exceptionally persnickety about territory.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Persnickety dates back to the late 1800s. It is a variant of the Scots word pernickety, which is of uncertain origin. Pernickety is perhaps related to other Scots words with the per- prefix, like perskeetwhich meant “fastidious.”
(via Dictionary.com)
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