picky
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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
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picky (plural pickies)
- (informal) A picture.
- 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 44:
- And who knows, I might do a few pickies of you - fully clothed, needless to say.
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