Anal

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Anal /ˈeɪn(ə)l/ (adj.)
Excessively pedantic (supposedly owing to conflict over toilet-training in infancy, or having been beaten up, had one’s lunch money stolen an dones head jammed down the lavatory at boarding school). Consequently, a single source of joy for a certain kind of legal eagle, whose infantile psychosexual development promotes defecation — over your elegant draft — as the major source of sensuous pleasure and self-awareness. It is as well that you understand this, so you can react to it.