picky

pick +‎ -y

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɪki/

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picky (comparative pickier, superlative pickiest)

1. Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.

   I am very picky about the way my kitchen is laid out.

2. (UK, colloquial, not comparable) Of food or a meal: consisting of various small items from which the diner can pick and choose.

   picky bits

   picky tea

   • 1988, Jan Webster, One Little Room, page 240:

     […] a picky meal of bean-sprouts and humous […]

• anal-retentive
• choosy
• finicky
• fussy
• particular
• pedantic
• See also Thesaurus:fastidious

• pickily
• pickiness
• picky bits
• picky tea

picky (plural pickies)

1. (informal) A picture.
   • 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 44:

     And who knows, I might do a few pickies of you - fully clothed, needless to say.

• piccy

• pic