- - Ostentatious display of learning
- - Undue display of knowledge
- - Display of learning
- - Ostentatious show of knowledge
- - Writer with attempt to capture US lawyer's excessive precision
- - Being fastidious gets journalist into depression, taking bash
- - Little Edward in pantry quibbling
- - Pettifoggery from editor in store
- - "Punctiliousness in the Pantry", including first and second edition
- - dogmatism finds journalist in larder
- - editor entering to criticise effort is nit-picking
- - Excessive concern with minor rules
- - Ostentatious academicism
- - Opens epicurean dips in food store with excessive attention to detail
- - Den party (anag.)
- - Nit-picking editor brought in to criticise essay
- - Criticise essay in which journalist's shown dogmatism
- - Over-attention to detail
- - Excessive attention to details
- - Academic snobbery
- - Fusspot's trait
- - Know-it-all's tell-it-all
- - Academic purism
- - Academic hot air
- - Bluestocking's liability.
- - Didacticism.
- - Dry-as-dust scholarship.
- - Nit-picking editor in room off kitchen
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