Qué (quién) es nit-picking - definición
NAME CALLING
Nitpick; Nitpicking (pastime); Nit-picking; Nitpicking (sport); Nitpicker; Nitpickers; Nitpick (pastime)
nit-picking
informal
¦ noun fussy or pedantic fault-finding.
¦ adjective overly fussy and pedantic.
Derivatives
nit-pick verb
nit-picker noun
nit-picking
see nitpicking
nitpicking
also nit-picking
If you refer to someone's opinion as nitpicking, you disapprove of the fact that it concentrates on small and unimportant details, especially to try and find fault with something.
A lot of nit-picking was going on about irrelevant things...
I can get down to nitpicking detail, I am pretty fussy about certain things.
= quibbling
N-UNCOUNT [disapproval]
Wikipedia
Nitpicking
Nitpicking is a term, first attested in 1956, that describes the action of giving too much attention to unimportant detail. A person who nitpicks is termed as a nitpicker.
The terminology originates from the common act of manually removing nits (the eggs of lice, generally head lice) from another person's hair.
As nitpicking inherently requires fastidious attention to detail, the term has become appropriated to describe the practice of meticulously searching for minor, even trivial errors in detail.
Nitpicking has been used to describe dishonest insurers and bullying employers, or even bullying family members.
Ejemplos de pronunciación para nit-picking
1. and maybe it goes beyond nit picking--
James Hanson _ Talks at Google
2. So if we're nit picking, yeah just 50 Cent is the credit.
Fireside Jam _ Mark Lettieri _ Talks at Google
3. And it really becomes like nit picking, taking apart every dish and every component and figuring
Talking with My Mouth Full _ Gail Simmons _ Talks at Google
Ejemplos de uso de nit-picking
1. Julie said: "I‘m disgusted at the nit–picking attitude of the council.
2. And I‘m so glad I‘m free from a life of incessant nit–picking," she adds.
3. It felt like nit–picking to point this out at the time.
4. Although the order size and timing is not known, the product must be fresh and packed according to the supermarkets‘ nit–picking requirements.
5. She claimed Mrs Window was "extremely nosey and was "always nit picking." She tried to hide her face from photographers when she left court.