finikin

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And this finikin is up to his conceit: he wanted to tell me that that yer handy brush dump outside our shanty was unhealthy.

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  1. Daintily fine; dainty. With that came in a wealthy knight, Which was both grave and old, And after him a finikin lass, Did shine like the glistering gold. Robin Hood and Allin A Dale (Child's Ballads, V. 281).
  2. Pettily particular; precise in trifles; idly busy; especially, particular about dress. The bearded creatures are quite as finikin over their toilets as any coquette in the world. Thackeray. The most finnikin of us must needs begrime himself in getting forward ever so little a distance. Contemporary Rev., LIV. 33.
  3. A sort of pigeon with a crest some-what resembling the mane of a horse.

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  1. Also finnikin and, with accommodation terminations, finicking, finicky, finical; orig. a dial. word, of Dutch origin; cf. Middle Dutch fijnkens, adverb, precisely, exactly, neatly, from fijn, fine, precise, exact, + diminutive -ken, English -kin.
 

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