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English
Etymology
From nit + picking.
Noun
nitpicking (countable and uncountable, plural nitpickings)
- The painstaking process of removing nits (lice eggs) from someone's hair.
- (figuratively, by extension) A process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors, particularly if the pointed-out details seem insignificant or irrelevant to all but the finder.
- "Of all life's pleasures, I like nitpicking the best." -- Wally in Dilbert
Translations
any process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors
- Arabic: تَمَحُّلُ النَّقْد m (tamaḥḥulu n-naqd)
- Bengali: চুলচেরা বিচার (culcera bicar)
- Danish: flueknepperi (da) m
- Dutch: muggenziften (nl) m, mierenneuken (nl)
- Finnish: niuhotus (fi), niuhottaminen (fi)
- French: pinaillerie (fr) f, pinaillage (fr) m, ergotage (fr) m, chicane (fr) f, pointilleux (fr) m, pédanterie (fr) f
- German: Pedanterie (de) f, Erbsenzählerei (de) f
- Hungarian: szőrszálhasogatás (hu)
- Icelandic: sparðatíningur m
- Italian: pignoleria (it) f, cavillosità f, pedantismo (it) m, puntigliosità (it) f
- Macedonian: ситничарење n (sitničarenje)
- Maori: totetore
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: flisespikkeri (no) n
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