Reverse Dictionary: PARTICULAR

ADJECTIVES
► CACKLE-STOMACHED having a stomach easily disgusted, squeamish; over-particular → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► CHOICEY ► CHOICY choosy, particular, fussy → 1909 Amer. dial.
► CONCEITY hard to please, over-particular → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CONNIPITY full of whims; hard to please, particular → 1927 Amer. dial.
► CRANKY overly fastidious, fussy, particular → 1965 Amer. dial.
► CRAZY CLEAN too particular or fussy → 1965 Amer. dial.
► CRITICULAR critical and particular → 1942 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► CURIOUS difficult to satisfy; particular; fastidious → c1380 obs.
► DAINSHACH fastidious, particular; fussy about food → 1920 Sc.
► DAINTY-CHAPPED fastidious or particular as to eating and food → 19C obs. obs.
► DAUNCH fastidious, dainty, overnice, squeamish, over-particular; sensitive, jealous of one’s own dignity → c1460 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► FADDLING trifling, over-particular, fastidious → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FADDY fastidious, fidgety, over-particular; full of crotchets or whims → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FANTY-SHEENY showy, fanciful, over-particular → 1847 Eng. dial.
► FASCIOUS ► FASHIOUS difficult to please, particular; unfortunate, shameful → 1725 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► FEMMY of a man: too particular or fussy; womanish → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FESHOUS troublesome, annoying, vexatious; difficult to please, particular; unfortunate, shameful → 1725 Eng. dial.
► FINE-HAIRED cultivated; fastidious; too particular → 1873 Amer. dial.
► FINICKING fussy, fastidious, unduly particular about trifles; finicky → 1872 Amer. dial.
► KECKLE-STOMACHED having a stomach easily disgusted, squeamish; over-particular → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► MINCY over-particular, finicky or overly fastidious, usually about eating → 1913 Amer. dial.
► NASTY-NEAT very neat, overly tidy; excessively fastidious; too particular or fussy; old-fashioned → 1916 Amer. dial.
► NASTY-NICE very neat, overly tidy; excessively fastidious; too particular or fussy; old-fashioned → 1873 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► NEAT-NICE very neat, overly tidy; excessively fastidious; too particular or fussy; old-fashioned → 1951 Amer. dial.
► NICE-NASTY very neat, overly tidy; excessively fastidious; too particular or fussy; old-fashioned → 1965 Amer. dial.
► NICEY-NICE ► NICEY-NICEY affectedly proper; prissy; too particular or fussy → 1930 Amer. dial.
► NIPPITY-NICE over-particular or fussy → 1967 Amer. dial.
► PARTIC particular → 1894 Sc.
► PAUKY ► PAWKY dainty, squeamish, over-particular, fussy, difficult to please → 1903 Eng. dial.  (Bk.)
► PERNICKETTY ► PERNICKETY ► PERNICKITY fussy, finicky, particular, meticulous, precise; crotchety, cranky; disagreeable → 1834 Amer. dial.
► PERSNICKERTY ► PERSNICKETY fussy, finicky, particular, meticulous, precise; crotchety, cranky; disagreeable, obstinate → 1965 Amer. dial.
► PICKETY fussy, particular, fault-finding, hypercritical → 1966 Amer. dial.
► PRICK-ME-DAINTY finicky in dress, language, and behaviour; affectedly dainty; over-precise; excessively particular or fastidious → 1583 chiefly Sc.
► PRISSY prim, prudish, overly modest, precise, over-particular → 1895 Amer. dial.
► PRISSY-RISSY overly particular, fussy → 1965 Amer. dial.
► SCRUMBOTIOUS particular, excellent, fine, delightful → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRUMPTIOUS fastidious, particular; hard to please → M19 sl., orig. US
► SNOOPY finicky, particular about one’s food → 1936 Amer. dial.
► STICKY strait-laced, punctilious, particular → 1925
► TAFFETY florid, bombastic; over-dressed; dainty, delicate, fastidious, particular → 1719
► TARTY dainty, particular as to food → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TEDIOUS careful, scrupulous, particular → 1874 Eng. dial.
► TICKLER particular → 1844 Amer. dial.
► TICKY finicky, fussy, too particular; touchy, easily offended → 1894 Amer. dial.
► TICULAR particular → 1937 Amer. dial.
► TIMOROUS nice, particular in dress → 1828 Eng. dial.
► UP-STICKED stuck-up; over-particular → 1899 Sc.
► VAIR having no appetite, being fussy or particular about food → 1845
► VANSOME difficult to please → 1929 Sc.
► VIDUAL individual, particular, distinct, precise → 1850 Sc. & Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► PARTICULARITY a personal or private trait or characteristic; an idiosyncrasy; a detail, a particular → 1783 Sc.
► PARTICULE a detail, an item, a particular → 1731 Sc. obs.

NOUNS – PERSON
► CLATTERER a person who is too particular or fussy, esp. a woman → 1967 Amer. dial.
► DINK a particular or fussy person → 1966 Amer. dial.
► FAD one who is difficult to please in trifles; a fussy, over-particular person; a fastidious person → 1877 Eng. dial.  (Bk.)
► FADDLE a fanciful person, either fastidious in trifles or devoted to some particular hobby; a fussy, over-particular person; one full of whims and fancies → 1881 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FID-FAD a fastidious person; one who is over-nice and particular; a trifler → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FUSSBUG who is too particular or fussy → 1965 Amer. dial.
► FUSS-BUTT a too particular or fussy man → 1967 Amer. dial.
► FUSSYBUG a person who is too particular or fussy → 1965 Amer. dial.
► GRANDMOTHER a man who is too particular or fussy → 1969 Amer. dial.
► HENNY a person who is very particular or fussy; one who worries a lot about little things; a person who is always finding fault about unimportant things → 1950 Amer. dial.
► OLD FUSS-CAT a particular or fussy woman → 1965 Amer. dial.
► OLD GRAMMAW a man who is too particular or fussy → 1969 Amer. dial.
► OLD GRANDPA a man who is too particular or fussy → 1965 Amer. dial.
► PARTICULAR-SIDES an extremely particular person → 1916 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► PRIG a dandy, a fop; a particular or excessively precise person → 1676 sl.
► PRIGSTER an excessively precise or particular person; generally, an objectionable person → 1688 obs.
► PRUDE an over-particular girl → 1913 Amer. dial. ​ (Bk.)
► QUEERY one who is strange or odd; a person who is too particular or fussy → 1968 Amer. dial.
► QUIDDLE a fussy, over-particular, or fastidious person; one hard to satisfy in trifling matters of diet, etc.; one who wastes his energy about trifles → 1856 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► SPUTTERBRIDGET someone who is too particular; a finicky, fussy, or fretful person → 1915 Amer. dial.

VERBS
► FIDDLE-FADDLE to trifle; to dawdle; to be particular about trifles → 1890 Sc. & Eng. dial.