finicky
adjEtymology
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.
- derived from fijntjes)
Definitions
Fastidious and fussy
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.
Demanding
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.
The neighborhood
- synonymexacting
- synonymfastidious
- synonymfussy
- synonymmeticulous
- synonymparticular
- synonympicky
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at finicky. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at finicky. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at finicky
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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