Crossword clues for pernickety
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pernickety \Per*nick"et*y\, Pernicketty \Per*nick"et*ty\, a. Finical or fussy; full of petty details. [Colloq.]
Syn: persnickety. [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1808 (pernicktie, in Jamieson), "precise, fastidious," extended form of Scottish pernicky, of uncertain origin, perhaps somehow from particular.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context chiefly British English) fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious. 2 Requiring attention to minor details.
WordNet
adj. characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher" [syn: persnickety]
Usage examples of "pernickety".
He was a most pernickety man and was not satisfied with grinding lenses as good as those of the best lens-grinder in Holland, they had to be better than the best, and then he still fussed over them for long hours.
I guess they must have have come from at least four different distant shores, and you have the time to personally inspect our documents in the most pernickety detail?
The white housekeeper, despite her years and her pernickety adherences to the house.
Then old Luttrell, he gave everybody a clean bill - too clean about the Treshams and Miss Parker and Miss Rogers - but absolutely on the level in his pernickety way.
The white housekeeper, despite her years and her pernickety adherences to the house.
Remember, your astrological sign is that of the goat, and goats are not given to fits of the vapours (not in the Victorian acceptance of the word, that is to say ) and have never been pernickety about their food.