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English
Etymology
pick + -y
Pronunciation
Adjective
picky (comparative pickier, superlative pickiest)
- Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
I am very picky about the way my kitchen is laid out.
- (UK, colloquial, not comparable) Of food or a meal: consisting of various small items from which the diner can pick and choose.
1988, Jan Webster, One Little Room, page 240:[…] a picky meal of bean-sprouts and humous […]
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fussy, particular
- Bulgarian: придирчив (bg) (pridirčiv)
- Catalan: exigent (ca)
- Chinese:
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- Finnish: nirso (fi)
- French: pointilleux (fr)
- German: pingelig (de), wählerisch (de), anspruchsvoll (de)
- Ingrian: makjas
- Italian: esigente (it), puntiglioso (it), schizzinoso (it)
- Korean: 까다롭다 (ko) (kkadaropda)
- Luxembourgish: kriddeleg, pipeg (colloquial), glott (picky about food)
- Maori: wahakawa (about food)
- Norman: digoteux
- Norwegian: pirkete
- Bokmål: overnøyaktig, pedantisk
- Persian: ضربه زننده
- Portuguese: exigente (pt)
- Romanian: pretențios (ro), mofturos (ro), năzuros (ro)
- Russian: привере́дливый (ru) (priverédlivyj), разбо́рчивый (ru) (razbórčivyj)
- Spanish: puntilloso (es), quisquilloso (es), resabiado (es)
- Swedish: kinkig (sv), kräsen (sv)
- Ukrainian: прискі́пливий (pryskíplyvyj)
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Noun
picky (plural pickies)
- (informal) A picture.
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