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ser escrupuloso

English translation: fussy

09:30 Jan 31, 2012
Spanish to English translations [Non-PRO]
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Spanish term or phrase: ser escrupuloso
Hablando de una persona que no está dispuesta a beber, por ejemplo, con el vaso que ha usado antes otra persona. ¿Cómo se dice "escrupuloso" en este sentido en inglés?
Gracias.
André Filteau
Spain
Local time: 16:31
English translation:fussy
Explanation:
another option... less formal than fastidious perhaps?... depending on context....

fuss·y (fs)
adj. fuss·i·er, fuss·i·est
1. Easily upset; given to bouts of ill temper: a fussy baby.
2. Paying great or excessive attention to personal tastes and appearance; fastidious: He was always fussy about clothes.
3. Calling for or requiring great attention to sometimes trivial details: a fussy actuarial problem.
4. Full of superfluous details: "It can indeed be fussy, filling with ornament what should be empty space" (H.D.F. Kitto).
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Lorna O'Donoghue
Local time: 15:31
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Summary of answers provided
5 +5to be fastidious
James A. Walsh
5 +1to be particular
Lisa McCarthy
4fussy
Lorna O'Donoghue
Summary of reference entries provided
liz askew

  

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21 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +5
ser escrupuloso
to be fastidious


Explanation:
From Oxford Spanish dictionary:

escrupuloso -sa adjetivo

(España) (aprensivo) fastidious
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From Babylon English dictionary:

fastidious - Adjective
1. giving and careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness; "a fastidious and incisive intellect"; "fastidious about personal cleanliness"


James A. Walsh
Spain
Local time: 16:31
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 80

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lorna O'Donoghue
15 mins
  -> Thanks Lorna.
agree  Charles Davis
31 mins
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agree  Emiliano Pantoja
7 hrs
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agree  Richard Hill
10 hrs
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agree  Salloz
18 hrs
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36 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
fussy


Explanation:
another option... less formal than fastidious perhaps?... depending on context....

fuss·y (fs)
adj. fuss·i·er, fuss·i·est
1. Easily upset; given to bouts of ill temper: a fussy baby.
2. Paying great or excessive attention to personal tastes and appearance; fastidious: He was always fussy about clothes.
3. Calling for or requiring great attention to sometimes trivial details: a fussy actuarial problem.
4. Full of superfluous details: "It can indeed be fussy, filling with ornament what should be empty space" (H.D.F. Kitto).

Lorna O'Donoghue
Local time: 15:31
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
to be particular


Explanation:
Here's one definition of particular:

par·tic·u·lar (pr-tky-lr, p-tk-)
adj.

b. Attentive to or concerned with details or niceties, often excessively so; meticulous or fussy.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/particular


Some examples of usage:

Dr. Brown's Soft Spout Training Cup, 6 Ounce, Colors ... - Amazon.com
www.amazon.com/Dr-Browns-Spout-Training.../B00365E5HUCached
She is 10 months now, but has been drinking from this sippy cup and its ... But, she dropped it one day and the handle part broke off one side. ... preface this review by saying that my daughter ***is very particular about what she will drink from.**

Mother's Day: Coffee Cup Sleeve « Cynchronicity
cynchronicity.wordpress.com/2011/.../mothers-day-coffee-cup-sleev...Cached
6 May 2011 – ***She's very particular about what coffee she drinks, just how it's fixed, and even what kind of cup she drinks from.*** She's also still a very busy ..



Lisa McCarthy
Spain
Local time: 16:31
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 153

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Suzanne Donnelly
1 hr
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Reference comments


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Reference

Reference information:
scrupulous - definition of scrupulous by the Free Online Dictionary ...
www.thefreedictionary.com/scrupulous
scru·pu·lous (skr py -l s). adj. 1. Conscientious and exact; painstaking. See Synonyms at meticulous. 2. Having scruples; principled.

liz askew
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 123
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