Definition of "picky" []

• Informal Excessively meticulous; fussy. (adjective)

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• "The part that's the most picky is the roasting and peeling of the chiles and the walnuts, but it's worth the trouble!"
• "E, on the other hand, as the previous anecdote hints, is not such a great eater we don’t use the word picky only because we don’t believe in it."
• "I could be called picky, but when I spend a lot of money on an appliance, I expect it to work for a long time ... like maybe a week or two before the ice maker goes kablooey, or the washer stops going through the spin cycle, or a cup put in the wrong place on the upper dishwasher rack makes the upper washer arm work under noisy protest."