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English
Etymology
From choice + -y.
Adjective
choicy (comparative choicier or more choicy, superlative choiciest or most choicy)
- Fastidious; choosy; discriminating.
2001, Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-year Quest for Cheap Labor:"As jobs became more plentiful," explained Roll, "we got more affluent, and people got more selective, and more choicy, and more independent, and I think possibly a lot of young people had a very exaggerated idea of their importance."
- Choice; select.
1994, Lewis Grizzard, The Last Bus to Albuquerque:I think it is very important to point out barbecue ribs, black-eyed peas, grits and collards may, in fact, be a choicy dish to many black Americans. But it also sounds pretty darn good to me, a white man.
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