pickyness
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pickyness (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of pickiness
- 1932 October 20, S. E. Spicer, “Politics And Powder-Puffs”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume XCII, number 194, page 12:
- Step into one of the smart clothes shop and it will surprise you to see the “pickyness” of men.
- 1951, Evelyn Beyer, The Teacher Sets The Stage, National Association for Nursery Education:
- A general atmosphere of “pickyness” prevailed.
- 1962, Alice L. Voiland and associates, “The Egocentric Family”, in Family Casework Diagnosis, New York, N.Y., London: Columbia University Press, →LCCN, page 209:
- Outstanding examples are demandingness or “pickyness” about food, overeating, deliberate embarrassment of parents in public by boisterous behavior, defecating on a neighbor’s floor, running away in a rainstorm.
- 1963 June 20, George Dixon, “Washington Scene”, in Berwick Enterprise, volume 61, number 64, Berwick, Pa.:
- One piece of pickyness is apt to lead to another.