“persnickety”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

persnickety

释义

persnickety, a. (adv.) U.S. colloq.|pəsˈnɪkɪtɪ|
Also perˈsnikity.
Altered f. pernickety a. Hence perˈsnicketiness.
1905Dialect Notes III. 63 Persnickety,..disagreeable, or snippy. ‘They acted mighty persnickety.’1915Ibid. IV. 215 Fern is more persnikity about her clothes than either of the other girls.1922W. Stevens Let. 5 May (1967) 227, I have no desire to be persnickety about the arrangement of the group.1940Sat. Even. Post 10 Feb. 25 Dad was too old to begin being what he called ‘persnickety’.1960Wentworth & Flexner Dict. Amer. Slang 384/1 Persnickety, pernickety adj., fussy; fastidious; punctilious; snobbish. Since c. 1890. ‘Pernickety’ is now obs.; ‘persnickety’, once dial., is now colloq.1967R. Stein Great Cars 222/1 That archetype of persnickety Yankee toolmakers.1977Time 17 Oct. 48/2 Billy compensates for his brother's sweet-eyed psalm-singing and persnicketiness.

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