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# Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-1418/
- Published: 2019-04-12T18:15:35.000Z
- Updated: 2019-04-06T18:18:41.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

The word for today is…

finicky (adj) – Insisting capriciously on getting just what one wants; difficult to please; fastidious.

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

Etymology : You may be familiar with an advertising campaign featuring Morris, the finicky housecat who would only eat a certain brand of cat food. Morris’s tastes in cuisine are not only very particular, but very fine as well, and that’s appropriate given the origin of finicky. The word came about as an alteration of finicking, itself an alteration of another adjective, finical. It’s believed that finical derives from the adjective fine. Finicking also gives us finick, a somewhat rare verb meaning “to put on airs” or “to dawdle about.”