per·snick·e·ty /pɝˈsnɪkəti/
  (a.)嘮叨的,小氣的,俗氣的
  Per·snick·et·y a.
  1. Finicky or fussy; demanding excessive attention to petty details or niceties; unduly particular; fastidious; -- of people. [Colloq.]
  Syn: -- finical, finicky, fussy, meticulous, painstaking, pernickety, pernicketty, punctilious.
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  persnickety
       adj 1: used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or
              arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate
              family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and
              uppity and persnickety" [syn: bigheaded, snooty, snot-nosed,
               snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches, uppish]
       2: characterized by excessive precision and attention to
          trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety
          school teacher" [syn: pernickety]