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  • 501 quisquilloso

    adj.
    touchy, delicate, jumpy, finicky.
    * * *
    1 finicky, fussy, touchy
    ► nombre masculino,nombre femenino
    1 fusspot
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    ADJ
    1) (=susceptible) touchy, oversensitive; (=irritable) irritable; (=perfeccionista) pernickety *, persnickety (EEUU) *, choosy, fussy
    2) (=preocupado por nimiedades) too bothered about petty details
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    - sa adjetivo (meticuloso, exigente) fussy, picky (colloq); ( susceptible) touchy
    * * *
    = fastidious, nitpicking [nit-picking], irritable, fussy [fussier -comp., fussiest -sup.], quibbler, finicky [finickier -comp., finickiest -sup.], fusspot, fussbudget, picky [pickier -comp., pickiest -sup.].
    Ex. Some of them will be sufficiently bizarre to suit the most fastidious connoisseur of the present artifacts of civilization.
    Ex. Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
    Ex. 'Searching' or even 'ordering' would be better, so long as we didn't imply by either of them an ' irritable reaching after fact and reason'.
    Ex. Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
    Ex. They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.
    Ex. After all, even a healthy cat can become finicky when offered an unfamiliar meal.
    Ex. As for Steve, he traded his days as a bachelor for life with a fusspot.
    Ex. And they're playing an odd couple reminiscent of Neil Simon's classic pairing of a fussbudget and a slob.
    Ex. If by chance she gets close to a boy that she likes she suddenly get very picky and think of all his negative points.
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    * ser demasiado quisquilloso = put + too fine a point on, split + hairs.
    * ser muy quisquilloso = be picky.
    * * *
    - sa adjetivo (meticuloso, exigente) fussy, picky (colloq); ( susceptible) touchy
    * * *
    = fastidious, nitpicking [nit-picking], irritable, fussy [fussier -comp., fussiest -sup.], quibbler, finicky [finickier -comp., finickiest -sup.], fusspot, fussbudget, picky [pickier -comp., pickiest -sup.].

    Ex: Some of them will be sufficiently bizarre to suit the most fastidious connoisseur of the present artifacts of civilization.

    Ex: Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
    Ex: 'Searching' or even 'ordering' would be better, so long as we didn't imply by either of them an ' irritable reaching after fact and reason'.
    Ex: Librarians are expected, by their popular media image, to be fussy, nit-picking, pedants.
    Ex: They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.
    Ex: After all, even a healthy cat can become finicky when offered an unfamiliar meal.
    Ex: As for Steve, he traded his days as a bachelor for life with a fusspot.
    Ex: And they're playing an odd couple reminiscent of Neil Simon's classic pairing of a fussbudget and a slob.
    Ex: If by chance she gets close to a boy that she likes she suddenly get very picky and think of all his negative points.
    * ser demasiado quisquilloso = put + too fine a point on, split + hairs.
    * ser muy quisquilloso = be picky.

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    1
    (meticuloso, exigente): es terriblemente quisquilloso y no le gusta que nadie toque sus cosas he is terribly particular and he doesn't like anyone touching his things
    ningún hotel le vino bien, es tan quisquilloso none of the hotels suited him, he's so hard to please o so choosy o so fussy
    2 (susceptible) touchy
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    quisquilloso
    ◊ -sa adjetivo (meticuloso, exigente) fussy, picky (colloq);


    ( susceptible) touchy
    quisquilloso,-a adjetivo & sustantivo masculino y femenino
    1 (meticuloso) fussy
    2 (suspicaz) touchy
    ' quisquilloso' also found in these entries:
    Spanish:
    quisquillosa
    - chinche
    - fastidioso
    English:
    fussy
    - nit
    - picky
    * * *
    quisquilloso, -a
    ♦ adj
    1. [detallista] pernickety
    2. [susceptible] touchy, oversensitive
    ♦ nm,f
    1. [detallista] nit-picker
    2. [susceptible] touchy person;
    ser un quisquilloso to be touchy
    * * *
    adj touchy
    * * *
    quisquilloso, -sa adj
    : fastidious, fussy
    quisquilloso, -sa n
    : fussy person, fussbudget
    * * *
    1. (exigente) fussy [comp. fussier; superl. fussiest]
    2. (susceptible) touchy [comp. touchier; superl. touchiest]

    Spanish-English dictionary > quisquilloso

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