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finicky

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Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
20
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈfɪnɪki/

Definition of finicky

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (informal)Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
    “My editor is very finicky about punctuation. Every dot and comma has to be just right.”
    “She has a finicky baby that's hard to feed.”
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adj

  1. (informal)Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
    “My editor is very finicky about punctuation. Every dot and comma has to be just right.”
    “She has a finicky baby that's hard to feed.”
  2. (informal)Demanding; requiring above-normal care.
    “The lawnmower is a bit finicky in cold weather.”
    “Instead of Rose Levy Beranbaum’s Cream Cheese Pie Crust from her addictingly finicky The Pie and Pastry Bible, I decided to make her Sour Cream Crust.”

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Etymology

From finick (“to work in a fastidious manner, wasting time over unnecessary details”) + -y. Compare finicking, finical, and dated finikin. Perhaps suggested by obsolete Dutch fijnkens (“accurately, neatly, prettily”) (modern Dutch fijntjes). Compare also Sicilian finicchiu.

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