pickery

I see the huge sugar-house, or tobacco-shed, or cotton "pickery;" and there, too, are the neat

The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

I personally didn't like the combat, but that's just nit-pickery.

Richard Morgan on writing SF for video games Adam Whitehead 2010

Oh, and a small piece of pointless nit-pickery, but since Cosmic Encounter was the inspiration for Magic: The Gathering, wouldn't it have been nice to list it above Magic?

Simple Framework, Special Abilities 2009

The overall phenomenon of the committee vs Obama and the way this committee is operating with the help of the MSM ..... gets lost in that nit-pickery.

Election Central Saturday Roundup 2009

May 18th, 2006 at 1: 35 am jack says: well, though I agree that this to make much of this is true nit-pickery … ..

Think Progress » Memorandum To Tony Snow On The Use Of The Term ‘Tar Baby’ 2006

No, sir; if a trifle stolen in the street is termed mere pickery, but is elevated into sacrilege if the crime be committed in a church, so, according to the just gradations of society, the guilt of an injury is enhanced by the rank of the person to whom it is offered, done, or perpetrated, sir.

Chapter XLII 1917

[11] Julia Mannering reminds me a little of Julia Townsend: and if this be doubtful, the connection of Jerry's "Old madam gave me some higry-pigry" and Cuddie's "the leddy cured me with some hickery-pickery" is not.

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

No, sir; if a trifle stolen in the street is termed mere pickery, but is elevated into sacrilege if the crime be committed in a church, so, according to the just gradations of society, the guilt of an injury is enhanced by the rank of the person to whom it is offered, done, or perpetrated, sir. '

Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801

No, sir; if a trifle stolen in the street is termed mere pickery, but is elevated into sacrilege if the crime be committed in a church, so, according to the just gradations of society, the guilt of an injury is enhanced by the rank of the person to whom it is offered, done, or perpetrated, sir. '

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801

No, sir; if a trifle stolen in the street is termed mere pickery, but is elevated into sacrilege if the crime be committed in a church, so, according to the just gradations of society, the guilt of an injury is enhanced by the rank of the person to whom it is offered, done, or perpetrated, sir. '

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801