“finicky”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

finicky

释义

finicky, a. orig. dial. and U.S.|ˈfɪnɪkɪ|
[f. finick v. + -y¹.]
= finicking a.
1825Brockett Gloss. N. Country Words, Finniky, trifling, scrupulously particular.1839Poe Wks. (1865) II. 388 He was really the most finnicky little personage that had ever been seen in Vondervotteimittiss.1859Trans. Ill. Agric. Soc. 1857–8 III. 473 We desire to be neither coarse or finicky.1873E. Eggleston Myst. Metrop. xxxv. 303 You a'n't so finicky 'bout vittles as you was.1887Critic (N.Y.) 9 Apr., A great number of the rules..seem equally what New England matrons call ‘finicky’.1892B. Matthews Americanisms & Briticisms 24 Professor Freeman..frequently finicky in his choice of words.1895Rev. Reviews Oct. 355/1 The fine or finicky ear of the critic in the study.1934Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. July 59 A prolix writer, finicky I am told, about literary style.

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