piccy

9.9

Careful and picky about small details and choices

adjective
/ˈpɪki/

: exigente

She's so piccy about her food!

Examples

She's quite piccy when it comes to choosing restaurants for dinner.
My brother is quite piccy when it comes to choosing a movie.
Don't be so piccy—just pick a movie already!
My brother is piccy about the clothes he wears, and only buys certain brands.
My sister is very piccy about her dessert, always opting for the most elaborate options.
He can be quite piccy when selecting his favorite ice cream flavor from the menu.
Don't be so piccy about the details; we just need to get started on the project.

Synonyms

particular

vspiccy

106 4.4

Careful about small details and hard to please

is more colloquial and usually about minor choice preferences

picky

vspiccy

67 4.7

Being hard to please about food or small details

is more playful and stresses fussiness over tiny choices

meticulous

vspiccy

58 8.6

Being very careful about small details

is more informal and concerned mainly with small personal choices

fussy

vspiccy

24 3.9

Easily annoyed and hard to please about small things

is more playful and focuses on what one accepts or prefers

choosy

vspiccy

15 3.9

Hard to please when choosing things like clothes or food

is fussier and more concerned with tiny everyday details

finicky

vspiccy

12 7.1

Hard to please and careful about small details

is more colloquial and centers on minor choice preferences

nitpicky

vspiccy

Informal

4 7.9

Paying too much attention to small unimportant details and criticizing them

is lighter and used for casual objections to small choices

persnickety

vspiccy

Informal

4 9.8

Being very picky about small details

is similarly informal but highlights picky personal choices

picky about

vspiccy

Informal

3 6.8

Careful about choosing things like clothes or food and hard to please

is broader, applying to fussiness about many small choices

piccy about

vspiccy

9.9

Choosy about small details and what they accept

is the informal base form used for fussiness about small choices

pernickety

vspiccy

9.4

Being very careful about small details in a way that annoys others

is more playful and focused on small personal preferences

finickety about

vspiccy

9.1

Being very picky about small details when choosing or arranging things

is more casual and usually refers to everyday small choices

finical

vspiccy

9.9

Careful about small details and hard to please

is more informal and focuses on personal selection rather than precision

hair-splittingly precise

vspiccy

Informal

8.1

Too careful about small details when it is not needed

is informal fussiness about choices rather than technical exactness

hairsplitting

vspiccy

8.1

Too focused on small unimportant details in a discussion

is about everyday small choice fussiness, not analytical nitpicking

overly fussy

vspiccy

6.1

Too worried about small details and hard to please

is more casual and used for light everyday fussiness

niggly

vspiccy

9.2

Paying too much attention to small, unimportant details

is more informal and often about personal taste choices

picayunish

vspiccy

Archaic

9.9

Giving too much attention to small, unimportant details

is more casual and used for ordinary picky behaviour

Antonyms

easygoing

22 2.6

Being calm and relaxed and not easily upset

Idioms

piccy about

9.9

Choosy about small details and what they accept

How Fussy

fastidious

8 8.0

piccy

9.9

fussy

24 3.9

particular

106 4.4

Surface Forms

piccy positive

piccier comparative

picciest superlative

Morphology

piccy = picky (transparent) = pick + y

‘Piccy’ is a nonstandard / variant spelling of 'picky' with the same meaning, so the relation to the base adjective is direct and obvious.

Etymology

Piccy is an informal, playful form of picky, and comes from the word pick, which means 'choose'. Think of someone who keeps 'picking' at small things, so piccy means being very fussy about small details or choices.