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choicy

choicy adjective: fastidious; choosy; discriminating.

Adjective

choicy (comparative choicier or more choicy, superlative choiciest or most choicy)

  1. Fastidious; choosy; discriminating.
    • "As jobs became more plentiful," explained Roll, "we got more affluent, and people got more selective, and more choicy, and more independent, and I think possibly a lot of young people had a very exaggerated idea of their importance."2001, Jefferson Cowie, Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-year Quest for Cheap Labor
  2. Choice; select.
    • I think it is very important to point out barbecue ribs, black-eyed peas, grits and collards may, in fact, be a choicy dish to many black Americans. But it also sounds pretty darn good to me, a white man.1994, Lewis Grizzard, The Last Bus to Albuquerque

Forms of choicy

comparativechoicier
comparativemore choicy
superlativechoiciest
superlativemost choicy

Origin of choicy

From choice + -y.

Questions about choicy

What does choicy mean?
Choicy means fastidious; choosy; discriminating.
What part of speech is choicy?
Choicy is an adjective.

Words near choicy in the dictionary

  1. choiceworthiest
  2. choiceworthiness
  3. choiceworthy
  4. choicier
  5. choiciest
  6. choicy
  7. choil
  8. choils
  9. Choiniere
  10. Choinieres
  11. choir

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