Persnickety

Definitions: Persnickety

Persnickety

Adjective

1. Used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety".

2. Characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher".

Commercial Usage: Persnickety

Domain	Title
Books	Don't be so Persnickety (reference) Mr. Persnickety and Cat Lady (reference) Persnickety (reference) Persnickety (Serendipity Books Series) (reference) Tee-bo the talking dog on the trail of the persnickety prowler (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Persnickety

Modern Translations: Persnickety

Language		Translations for "persnickety"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Indonesian		rewel (fret, hard to please, unreasonable). (various references)

Pig Latin		ersnicketypay

Russian		придирчивый (cantankerous, captious, carping, contentious, exceptive, hypercritical, overcritcal, pernickety, quarrelsome, snappish). (various references)

Spanish		quisquilloso (cantankerous, fussy, pernickety, pettifogging, petty, spiky, squeamish, touchy). (various references)

Ukranian		вибагливий (choice, finical, freakish, pernickety, tickle), причепливий (cantankerous, captious, carping, catching, catchy, censorious, fault finding, fuddy-duddy, hypercritical, notional, pernickety, snappish, snorty), педантичний (donnish, dryasdust, meticulous, notional, pedantic, pedantical, pernickety, precise, priggish, prim, punctilious, square-toed), делікатний (kid glove, pernickety, queasy, scrupulous, slippery, ticklish). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: Persnickety

Misspellings
	"Persnickety" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: persnicketny, persnicketty, persnickey, persnickity, ppersnickety. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Persnickety

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-k-n-p-r-s-t-y"
	-1 letter: pernickety.
	-2 letters: picketers, prentices, prescient, reinspect.
	-3 letters: crepiest, cysteine, encrypts, enticers, kernites, neckties, peckiest, pectines, percents, perkiest, pickeers, picketer, pinkeyes, precents, prentice, prickets, receipts, secretin, serenity, sickener, snickery, stricken, terpenic, yperites.
	-4 letters: centers, centres, cerites, cistern, cretins, crispen, cystein, cystine, ectypes, encrypt, enteric, enticer, entices, entires, entries, erepsin, incepts, inspect, keister, kernite, keyster, kiester.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-k-n-p-r-s-t-y"
	+5 letters: phenylketonurics.
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