etepetete — meaning in English
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English meaning
- anal adj Relating to or involving the anus.
- fastidious adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
- finicky adj Overly fussy or hard to please, especially about small details.
- fussy adjective Overly concerned with small details; hard to satisfy.
- particular adj Specific; referring to one particular thing rather than things in general.
- pernickety adj Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious.
Senses
etepetete is used for these senses in English:
- anal (psychology, also vulgar informal) Of a person, compulsive and stubborn, obsessed with neatness and accuracy (usually in an egosyntonic way), supposedly from not having progressed beyond the anal stage. [from Template:SAFESUBST: c.]
- anal-retentive (psychology, Freudian) Preoccupied with achieving perfection, order and control and with collecting, possessing, and retaining objects.
- anal-retentive (by extension) Overly obsessive concerning small details.
- fastidious Overly concerned about tidiness and cleanliness.
- finicky (informal, of a person) Fastidious and fussy; difficult to please; exacting, especially about details.
- hoity-toity Affected or pretentious, sometimes with the implication of displaying an air of excessive fanciness or ostentation; pompous, self-important, snobbish; often displaying a feeling of patronizing self-aggrandizing or arrogant class superiority.
- particular (comparable) Of a person, concerned with, or attentive to, details; fastidious.
- pernickety (chiefly, UK, Irish, Commonwealth) Fussy; paying undue attention to minor details; fastidious.
anal — full definition
- adj Relating to or involving the anus.
- adj Excessively focused on neatness, order, or small details; fussy and controlling (informal, short for "anal-retentive").
fastidious — full definition
- adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
- adj (biology) Needing very specific conditions or nutrients to grow, and therefore difficult to culture.