finicking

English

Etymology

Late 16th century. Earliest occurrence as finical, probably coined from fine + -ical. Finicking is recorded from the mid-17th century.

Adjective

finicking

  1. finical
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, chapter III, p. 29,
      […] he had wasted much time trying to teach her to keep house to suit his finicking taste […]

Noun

finicking (plural finickings)

  1. finicky behaviour; fussing
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