Pernickety

Function: adjective
Etymology: alteration of pernickety
1 a : fussy about small details : FASTIDIOUS
b : having the characteristics of a snob
2 : requiring great precision per·snick·e·ti·ness /-n&s/ noun

a. persnickety teacher
b. a persnickety job

by Vero January 10, 2005

Persnicketist

Someone who has perfected the art of being persnickety.

The boy in the office was such a persnicketist.

by Queen Kmack August 15, 2007

Persnicket

The word you say when a person coughs (sort of like saying bless you for a sneeze but for a cough)

Friend 1: *Coughs

Friend 2: ''Persnicket dude, persnicket''

by Miss.Puff August 16, 2018

persnicketous

Persnicketous is the noun form of the adjective persnickety. Essentially, it describes all of the small details to which people, particularly those with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) attend. The noun has the same form for both singular and plural uses.

"OMG my friend Jessica was working doing her AP Chem practice problems, and still wrote out all of the units and everything! The teacher is not even going to check it!"

"Dang, she must love to focus on the persnicketous."

by mataxu March 5, 2014

persnickities

basically anything that's sick is sickies, and if it's better then sickies it's persnickities....

Friend 1: I had sex with this hot chick last night
Friend 2: Sickies
Friend 2: I had sex with 2 hot chicks last night
Friend 1: Persnickities

by soxissickies April 9, 2010

persnicketive

Adverb form of persnickety

Don't be so persnickative about what I put on your plate.

Speaker was born in Oregan's Willamette valley in 1933.

by Reuel Titus October 12, 2003

persnikety

describes the smell of flowers and hawaiian punch, also used as a word for any intriguing smell.

that dish smells absolutely persnikety.

by kurtis shaw May 7, 2008