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- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of pickiness.
One piece of pickyness is apt to lead to another.
1963 June 20, George Dixon, “Washington Scene”, in Berwick Enterprise, volume 61, number 64, Berwick, Pa.3 more examples
Step into one of the smart clothes shop and it will surprise you to see the “pickyness” of men.
1932 October 20, S. E. Spicer, “Politics And Powder-Puffs”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume XCII, number 194, page 12A general atmosphere of “pickyness” prevailed.
1951, Evelyn Beyer, The Teacher Sets The Stage, National Association for Nursery EducationOutstanding examples are demandingness or “pickyness” about food, overeating, deliberate embarrassment of parents in public by boisterous behavior, defecating on a neighbor’s floor, running away in a rainstorm.
1962, Alice L. Voiland and associates, “The Egocentric Family”, in Family Casework Diagnosis, New York, N.Y.; London: Columbia University Press, →LCCN, page 209
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