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
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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