Hard to please.
1734. Children were early accustomed not to be nice or difficult in their eating.—Tr. ‘Rollin’s Ancient History’ (1827), iii. 32. (N.E.D.)
1817. [The landlady] asked the ladies if we were not English, and said, she would rather not wait upon us,—we should be “difficult.”—M. Birkbeck, ‘Journey in America,’ p. 44 (Phila,).
