finickn.
/ˈfɪnɪk/ 1. A finical person.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [noun] > fastidious person
abrodietical1623
hypercritic1634
over-critica1661
finick1706
delicate1710
finicking1744
fidfad1754
quiddle1793
faddle1881
faddy1887
perfectionist1909
Nice Nelly1922
1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 103 Does he think to be courted for acting the finick and conceited?
1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 114 She's an affected Finick.
1861 G. Meredith Evan Harrington I. iii. 29 The ladies..signalized him as a ‘finick’.
1949 S. Gibbons Matchmaker xxx. 370 No one would have credited such a finnick as Mrs Hoadley with being a first-class cook.
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2. dialect. ‘Mincing, affected manners’ ( S. Chesh. Gloss. 1887).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
finickv.
/ˈfɪnɪk/ Originally dialect.
intransitive. ‘To execute work in a fastidious manner, wasting time over unnecessary details’ ( Gloss. Words Holderness); ‘to mince, affect airs’ ( S. Chesh. Gloss.); to behave in a fastidious or finicky manner.
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1857 G. Meredith Farina 153 The Demon..pointed his feet, and finicked a few steps away.
a1916 E. P. Oppenheim Golden Beast (1926) I. xxiv She's all brain and fancies and temperament. That sort of person finicks with the marriage question.
1931 V. Woolf Waves 76 I do not finick about fearing what people think of ‘my father a banker at Brisbane’ like Louis.
Derivatives
ˈfinicking n.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > fastidiousness > [noun]
curiosityc1386
delicacya1393
curiousnessc1440
delicatesse1509
delicateness?1529
daintethness1548
exquisiteness?c1550
over-curiousness1573
featness1577
daintiness1579
dainty1590
finicality1594
niceness1604
squeamishness1654
fastidiousness1661
choicenessa1665
overnicety1664
finicalness1675
hypercriticism1678
overniceness1694
nicety1723
over-delicacy1745
daintihood1780
finickiness1833
finicism1844
over-criticism1859
overfineness1859
particularness1859
faddiness1865
finicking1869
picksomeness1881
pernicketiness1890
perfectionism1937
choosiness1945
pickiness1952
1869 E. Wadham Eng. Versif. 147 The verse laughs at such finnicking, and asserts its true division.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2019).
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