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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

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

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]