finicking

English

Etymology

Late 16th century. Earliest occurrence as finical, probably coined from fine + -ical. Finicking is recorded from the mid-17th century.

Adjective

finicking

1. finical
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter III, in Capricornia‎^[1], page 29:

     […] he had wasted much time trying to teach her to keep house to suit his finicking taste […]

Noun

finicking (plural finickings)

1. finicky behaviour; fussing