The word you say when a person coughs (sort of like saying bless you for a sneeze but for a cough)
Friend 1: *Coughs
Friend 2: ''Persnicket dude, persnicket''
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Persnicketous is the noun form of the adjective persnickety. Essentially, it describes all of the small details to which people, particularly those with OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) attend. The noun has the same form for both singular and plural uses.
"OMG my friend Jessica was working doing her AP Chem practice problems, and still wrote out all of the units and everything! The teacher is not even going to check it!"
"Dang, she must love to focus on the persnicketous."
Don't be so persnickative about what I put on your plate.
Speaker was born in Oregan's Willamette valley in 1933.
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"I'm getting an IUD tomorrow." "Whoa, don't they shove it right up your persnicket?" "Yep."
"I can't have sex tonight, my persnicket is bleeding."
"I love my persnicket."
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"Are you going to do my mom tonight?"
"Persnicketes. I think I have a clarinet lesson."