persnickety

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

persnickety
    adj 1: (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" [syn: {bigheaded}, {persnickety}, {snooty},
           {snot-nosed}, {snotty}, {stuck-up}, {too big for one's
           breeches}, {uppish}]
    2: characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial
       details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"
       [syn: {pernickety}, {persnickety}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Persnickety \Per*snick"et*y\, a.
   1. Finicky or fussy; demanding excessive attention to petty
      details or niceties; unduly particular; fastidious; -- of
      people. [Colloq.]

   Syn: finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, painstaking,
        pernickety, pernicketty, punctilious.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]

   2. Snobbish; behaving aloofly. [Colloq.]

   Syn: pernickety, pernicketty. [PJC]

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