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Definition of Pernickety
1. Adjective. Characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details. "A persnickety school teacher"
Definition of Pernickety
1. Adjective. (chiefly British) Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pernickety
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pernickety
Literary usage of Pernickety
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Poets Recent and Living by Alexander G. Murdoch (1883)
"She dusts and cleans the hale day lang, An' aye fin's oot there's something wrang;
The chairs an' me aboot are dang Because she's sae pernickety. ..."
2. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"perquisite recent use, persnickety is more common than per‘ty in the United
States; pernickety does have some rican use, and it is the only form used in ..."
3. The True Story of My Life: An Autobiography by Alice M. Diehl, Novelist by Alice Mangold Diehl (1908)
"People possessed of genius are always more or less " pernickety. ... But some
are merely "pernickety" on the surface, which hurts no one, if it irritates. ..."
4. The Nantucket Scrap Basket: Being a Collection of Characteristic Stories and by Sons and Daughters of Nantucket (1916)
""pernickety"—When a Nantucket person calls another pernickety, it strikes an
outsider as provincial or even as if the word might have been coined for the ..."
5. Dialect Notes by American Dialect Society (1890)
"For this read pernickety. pope-night (p. 18). " I saw the Gunpowder Plot celebrated
by a 'bone- fire '1 at Norwich, Conn., in 1844. ..."
6. The Book of Daniel Drew: A Glimpse of the Fisk-Gould-Tweed Régime from the by Bouck White (1910)
"And then, too, the city fathers these days are getting so pernickety. You remember
the market used to be ... And now they're getting more pernickety still. ..."
7. The Chippendales by Robert Grant (1909)
""He may be a little pernickety at times, but that's infinitely better in the long
run than being fast." Just at this moment Lora began to sing again, ..."
8. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1900)
"There are some plants that are just as pernickety as pernickety can be, but you
must understand their ..."
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