per·snick·e·ty /pɝˈsnɪkəti/
(a.)嘮叨的,小氣的,俗氣的
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.
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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]