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FINIKIN

Definition: FINIKIN

FINIKIN

Adjective

1. Precise in trifles; idly busy.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "FINIKIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms within Context: FINIKIN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Affectation

Stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified; finical, finikin; mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental.

Unimportance

Trifling, trivial; slight, slender, light, flimsy, frothy, idle; puerile; (foolish); airy, shallow; weak; powerless; frivolous, petty, niggling; piddling, peddling; fribble, inane, ridiculous, farcical; finical, finikin; fiddle-faddle, fingle-fangle, namby-pamby, wishy-washy, milk and water.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translations: FINIKIN

Language Translations for "FINIKIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

sqimatar (finical, finicking, finicky), pedant (donnish, dryasdust, finical, finicking, finicky, meticulous, pedagogue, pedant, pedantic, pernickety, precise, precisian, verbalist), gërnjar (bitchy, carping, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, grouch, grouchy, grouse, grouser, grumbler, nag, nagger, nagging, peevish, pettish, petulant, quarrelsome, shrewish, termagant, wrangler). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

придирчив (captious, carping, choosey, dainty, delicate, exacting, exceptive, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, nice, particular, pernickety, queasy, squeamish). (various references)

   

German

  

affektiertes. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

inikinfay

   

Russian 

  

разборчивый (choice, choosy, finical, finicking, finicky, legible, particular, picky). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

petig (finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, meticulous, narrow, pernickety, priggish), pedantisk (finical, finicking, finicky, pedantic, peddling, pernickety, precise, punctilious). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

kiểu cách quá tỉ mỉ (finical, finicking, finicky), khó tính (cantankerous, difficile, finical, finicking, finicky, miminy-piminy, nicely, perverse, select, unaccommodating), cầu kỳ (euphuistic, finical, finicking, finicky, laboured, overwrought). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: FINIKIN

Derivations

Words beginning with "FINIKIN": finiking. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: FINIKIN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "f-i-i-i-k-n-n"

-2 letters: kinin.

-3 letters: fink.

-4 letters: fin, ink, inn, kif, kin.

-5 letters: if, in.

 Words containing the letters "f-i-i-i-k-n-n"
 

+1 letter: finickin, finiking.

 

+2 letters: finicking.

 

+3 letters: finnickier, zinkifying.

 

+4 letters: finickiness, finnickiest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FINIKIN


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 49 4E 49 4B 49 4E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..-.    ..    -.    ..    -.-    ..    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001001 01001110 01001001 01001011 01001001 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#78 &#73 &#75 &#73 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 004E 0049 004B 0049 004E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

40434843454348

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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