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Definition: FINIKIN |
FINIKINAdjective1. Precise in trifles; idly busy. |
Date "FINIKIN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
| 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 разборчивый (choice, choosy, finical, finicking, finicky, legible, particular, picky). (various references) petig (finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, meticulous, narrow, pernickety, priggish), pedantisk (finical, finicking, finicky, pedantic, peddling, pernickety, precise, punctilious). (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "FINIKIN": finiking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 49 4E 49 4B 49 4E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. .. -. .. -.- .. -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001001 01001110 01001001 01001011 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I N I K I N |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)40434843454348 |
| 1. Definition 2. Translations: Modern 3. Derivations 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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