finnicking

There is not much 'finnicking' preparation for schnapper fishing, and in five minutes every line was baited, and over the side, and at the bottom, and before another two or three had passed we knew we had struck the right spot, for nearly every one of us felt the unmistakable tug of a lusty schnapper, and then the determined downward pull, strong and steady, which he makes when once hooked.

Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884

He watched the Houssa pick a finnicking way to the stern of the boat; saw the solemn faces of his rowmen as they bent their naked backs, gripping their clumsy oars.

Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903

He had rather taken, those first four days of being relieved of responsibility in regard to the twins, to finnicking with details, to dwelling lovingly on them with a sense of having a margin to his time, and things accordingly had considerably slowed down; but after twenty-four hours of Mrs. Bilton they hurried up again, and after forty-eight of her the speed was headlong.

Christopher and Columbus Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

It was too manifestly and studiously arranged, and it had the finnicking exactness of the favourite gallery of some connoisseur.

The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

It was too manifestly and studiously arranged, and it had the finnicking exactness of the favourite gallery of some connoisseur.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

As it is, they're too finnicking to be a bit of use.

White Lilac; or the Queen of the May Amy Walton 1873

There was no affectation or finnicking now: all alike were sportsmen.

A Hungarian Nabob M��r J��kai 1864

"Mother;" she said it was old-fashioned and vulgar: and now, when I come back, Father will not hear of my calling him "Papa," which he says is new-fangled finnicking nonsense.

Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow Emily Sarah Holt 1864

They are all slim French finnicking pattens down here.

Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow Emily Sarah Holt 1864

He's a silly, whimsical, finnicking piece -- that's what he is!

The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) Emily Sarah Holt 1864