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▪ I. finick, n.|ˈfɪnɪk|
[? Back-formation from finical; in sense 2 more prob. f. next vb.]
1. A finical person.
1706Reflex. upon Ridicule 103 Does he think to be courted for acting the finick and conceited? Ibid. 119 She's an affected Finick. 1861G. Meredith Evan Harrington iii. 29 The ladies..signalized him as a ‘finick’. 1949S. Gibbons Matchmaker xxx. 370 No one would have credited such a finnick as Mrs Hoadley with being a first-class cook.
2. dial. ‘Mincing, affected manners’ (S. Chesh. Gloss. 1887).
▪ II. finick, v. orig. dial.|ˈfɪnɪk|
Also finnick; in glossaries spelt finnack, -ock, etc.
[See finical, finicking.]
intr. ‘To execute work in a fastidious manner, wasting time over unnecessary details’ (Holderness Gloss.); ‘to mince, affect airs’ (S. Chesh. Gloss.); to behave in a fastidious or finicky manner. Hence ˈfinicking vbl. n.
1857G. Meredith Farina 153 The Demon..pointed his feet, and finicked a few steps away. 1869E. Wadham Eng. Versificat. 147 The verse laughs at such finnicking, and asserts its true division. a1916E. P. Oppenheim Golden Beast (1926) I. xxiv, She's all brain and fancies and temperament. That sort of person finicks with the marriage question. 1931V. Woolf Waves 76, I do not finick about fearing what people think of ‘my father a banker at Brisbane’ like Louis. |