Chiefly dial. Also finnick; in glossaries spelt finnack, -ock, etc. [See FINICAL, FINICKING.] intr. ‘To execute work in a fastidious manner, wasting time over unnecessary details’ (Holderness Gloss.); ‘to mince, affect airs’ (S. Chesh. Gloss.). Hence Finicking vbl. sb.
1869. E. Wadham, Eng. Versificat., 147. The verse laughs at such finnicking, and asserts its true division thus:—
| O mígh|ty-moúthed | invén|tor of hár|monies. |
