or pernicketty, adj. (Scots’).—Fastidious; over-particular.—JAMIESON.
1886. Popular Science Monthly, xxvi. 52. This I say for the benefit of those who otherwise might not understand what PERNICKITY creatures astronomers are.
1888. Harper’s Magazine, Eng. ed. viii. 875. Any white man … grows lame and impatient at such confining and PERNICKETY work.
