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'Pernickety' etymology

1808 (pernicktie, in Jamieson), of persons, "precise; fastidious; fussily particular, especially about trifles," an extended form of Scottish pernicky, which is of uncertain origin, perhaps somehow from particular. "Association with the knick group of words … may have been vaguely present" [OED].

Source : Online Etymology Dictionary

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