English

Adjective

finikin ‎(comparative more finikin, superlative most finikin)

1. (dated) Excessively dainty or fastidious.
   • c. 1745, George Washington, Moncure D. Conway, editor, George Washington's Rules of Civility, published 1890:

     Have a great regard for the cleanliness of your hands, but do not be finikin about it.

   • 1913, Henry W. Nevinson, Essays in Rebellion:

     Artifice and imitation reveal the finikin or uncertain soul as surely as deliberate bareness reveals a conscious austerity.

Noun

finikin ‎(plural finikins)

1. Alternative form of finnikin