persnickety

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Obsessive about mundane details, demanding for precision

Persnickety I have been accustomed to use in the sense attached to perjinkety, that is, over-fastidious. I do not know how the word was acquired or how common its use is.

Fastidious or fussy
{s} meticulous, fussy, overly concerned with small details
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"
characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher"
disapproval If you describe someone as persnickety, you think that they pay too much attention to small, unimportant details. He is a very rigorous man, very persnickety. = fussy. worrying too much about details that are not important - used to show disapproval (pernickety (19-21 centuries), perhaps from particular)
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Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious
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characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety school teacher
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disapproval If you describe someone as pernickety, you think that they pay too much attention to small, unimportant details. Customs officials can get extremely pernickety about things like that. = fussy. worrying too much about small and unimportant things = fussy (Perhaps from particular)
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{s} (Slang) strict, meticulous; petty, narrow-minded
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