finacious

finacious pronunciation

/fih-NAY-shus/

Meaning

Describes somebody picky to a fault, the kind who turns up their nose at supper or fuss over how a shirt is folded. Same neighborhood as finicky and particular, just with a bigger mouthful of a word. You hear it more in family talk than in print.

How folks use it

• “She's too finacious to eat leftovers.”
• “Don't get finacious on me about the coffee. Drink it or make your own.”

Origin and etymology

Likely a home-built stretch of finicky / finical, those older words for over-nice fussiness. English already had finical and Scots finicky for the same attitude. Southern mouths sometimes bolt on endings like -acious (compare touchous / tetchious). Exact first print date is murky; the sense matches rural talk for a hard-to-please eater or housekeeper.

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