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finicking

adj

Etymology

Late 16th century. Earliest occurrence as finical, probably coined from fine + -ical. Finicking is recorded from the mid-17th century.

Definitions

  1. finical

    • […] he had wasted much time trying to teach her to keep house to suit his finicking taste […]

  2. finicky behaviour

    finicky behaviour; fussing

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for finicking. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA