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persnickety   (TTS Sound)

The adj persnickety has 2 senses

• bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish -- ((used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and uppity and persnickety")


• pernickety, persnickety -- (characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher")