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Persnickety is a colloquialism of the Scottish pernickety, thought to be a childish onomatopoeia of 'particular.' I found eight instances of use in history.
Hypersnickety, however, doesn't exist in the OED at all. Or any form of it, even!
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Hypersnickety, however, doesn't exist in the OED at all. Or any form of it, even!