{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY February 10, 2019--- finicky

WORD OF THE DAY February 10, 2019

finicky    adjective | FIN-ih-kee     Definition   1 : extremely or excessively particular, exacting, or meticulous in taste or standards   2 : requiring much care, precision, or attentive effort   Scroll down for more about finicky      TRENDING NOW: apoplectic suffragette abject bipartisan SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 2/8/19       Rhapsodizing About 'Bohemian'     'Wiseacre' — Video Word of the Day 2/8/2019       Doing the Work of the 'Edgelord'         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Valentine's Day Quiz   A quiz for lovers and haters     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   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."     Examples of FINICKY   The young boy was a finicky eater, and his parents found it challenging to come up with ideas for healthy meals that he would enjoy.   "The 1970s, '80s, and '90s electronic components that are inside most pinball machines are aging and finicky, with a shrinking pool of techs able to decipher the machines' precise workings." — Zane Razzaq, The MetroWest Daily News (Framingham, Massachusetts), 27 Dec. 2018   Test Your Vocabulary   Fill in the blanks to complete a verb that means "to dress, adorn, or arrange in a finicky manner": _ r _ _ p.   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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