Source : WordNet®

persnickety
     adj 1: used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or
            arrogant; "a snotty little scion of a degenerate
            family"-Laurent Le Sage; "they're snobs--stuck-up and
            uppity and persnickety" [syn: {bigheaded}, {snooty}, {snot-nosed},
             {snotty}, {stuck-up}, {too big for one's breeches}, {uppish}]
     2: characterized by excessive precision and attention to
        trivial details; "a persnickety job"; "a persnickety
        school teacher" [syn: {pernickety}]