Associations to the word «Nitpicking»

Noun

Adverb

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Wiktionary

NITPICKING, noun. The painstaking process of removing nits (lice eggs) from someone's hair.
NITPICKING, noun. (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.

Wise words

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle