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# The BFD Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-word-of-the-day-26/
- Published: 2020-02-25T17:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-03-01T18:09:01.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:24

The word for today is…

persnickety (adj) – 1\. (a) Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious.  
(b) Snobbish; pretentious.  
2\. Requiring strict attention to detail; demanding.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/persnickety?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : 1889, alteration of pernickety.

pernickety, 1808 (pernicktie, in Jamieson), “precise, fastidious,” extended form of Scottish pernicky, of uncertain origin, perhaps somehow from particular.

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