FINICAL, FINICKING, FINICKY
ADJECTIVES
1583 — PRICK-ME-DAINTY finicky in dress, language, and behaviour; excessively particular
1625 — ABRODIETICAL finicky, fastidious; eating daintily → obs.
1748 — FALLAL finicking, affected, foppish → obs.
1754 — FALLALISH finicking, affected, foppish, somewhat fallal
..19C — SMICKER finical, effeminate; said of men
1815 — MIMINY-PIMINY finicky, over-refined, ridiculously delicate, precise, or affected → obs.
1818 — NACKETY finicky, fond of neatness → Sc.
1825 — PIRLIE finicky, difficult to please → Sc.
1834 — PERNICKET(T)Y — PERNICKITY finicky, fussy, particular, meticulous → Amer. dial.
1859 — PRIMPY finicky, fastidious; affected
1872 — FINICKING finicky, fussy, fastidious → Amer. dial.
1881 — TIMID finicky or overly fastidious, usually about eating → Amer. dial.
1887 — PERJINKETY finicky, fussy, extreme as to neatness → Sc.
1894 — TICKY finicky, fussy, too particular → Amer. dial.
1905 — MESSY finicking, fidgeting, irritating → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1913 — MINCY finicky or overly fastidious, usually about eating → Amer. dial.
1914 — SNEAKY finicky or fussy about eating → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1923 — NIFFY-NAFFY finicking, fussy, fastidious → Sc.
1936 — SNOOPY finicky, particular about one’s food
1950 — HENNY finicky, fussy, petty → Amer. dial.
1965 — PERSNICKERTY — PERSNICKERTY finicky, fussy, particular, meticulous → Amer. dial.
1969 — FINICKITY finicky, fussy, fastidious → Amer. dial.
NOUNS
1892 — PALAVER a finical procedure; a fussy manner of behaving
NOUNS, PERSON
1529 — PRICK-ME-DAINTY a person who is finicky and conceited in dress and carriage → chiefly Sc.
1699 — SMIRK a finical, spruce fellow → obs.
1753 — JEMMY a finical fellow; a dandy or fop → obs.
1839 — FINNICKS a person who behaves in a finicking manner → Eng. dial.
1842 — GRANNY a finicky, fussy, old person of either sex → Amer. dial.
1900 — FEENEEKIN a finical person of small stature (Bk.)
1915 — SPUTTERBRIDGET a finicky, fussy, or fretful person → Amer. dial.
1968 — BIRD-EATER a person who is finicky about food → Amer. dial.
1996 — ANAL RETENT an excessively finicky or fussy person → Aust. sl. (Bk.)
1996 — OLD FUDDY DUD a very fussy or finicky person → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
VERBS
1728 — NIFF-NAFF to take finicking trouble; to trifle; to toy → Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
1893 — NIGGLE to do something in a finicky, fussy, or time-wasting manner → UK colloq.
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