pernickety

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /pəˈnɪk.ɪ.ti/|/pəˈnɪk.ə.ti/    美 /pəˈnɪk.ə.ti/|[pəˈnɪk.ə.ɾi]

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious. Commonwealth,Ireland,UK
    — ‘You must forgive me,’ he said. ‘I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It’s very pernickety and old-maidish really, but then when I’m working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.’
  2. Requiring attention to minor details.

词形变化

more pernickety comparative most pernickety superlative persnickety alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
finickity pernicketily pernicketiness

词源

From Scots pernickety, persnickety, apparently from per- + nick (“a notch, mark, cutting retort”) + -et (“-ed”) + -y; equivalent to English per- + nick + -ety; literally, “marked up”, then “overly precise”. The alternative form persnickety, with s, may be due to substitution of Scots sneck (“a cut, notch”) for nick.
Compare also Scots variants pernicked, pernicket, pirnicky, and pernicky.
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