a. dial. and U. S. [f. FINICK v. + -Y1.] = FINICKING a.
1825. Brockett, Gloss. N. Country Words, Finniky, trifling, scrupulously particular.
1887. Critic (N. Y.), 9 April. A great number of the rules and illustrations that follow seem equally what New England matrons call ‘finicky,’ making the book, however wise and right in its ‘suggestions,’ one less of simplified rhetoric for a beginner than of amplified niceties for the purist.
1892. B. Matthews, Americanisms & Briticisms, 24. Professor Freeman, for example, who is frequently finicky in his choice of words, objected strongly to the use of metropolis as descriptive of the chief city of a country.
