Jan. 23rd, 2007

hypersnickety

Jan. 23rd, 2007 07:26 am
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hypersnickety adj., extremely overparticular.


Waaaaay persnickety. Which itself is from Scots, of unknown origin (though per- is a common intensifier in colloquial Scots.

---L.
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