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Definition: Nitpicking |
NitpickingAdjective1. Quibbling over insignificant details; "caviling pettifoggers and quiggling pleaders"-Edmund Burke; "her nagging and carping attack"; "thought her editor unnecessarily nitpicking"; "a pettifogging lawyer's mind"; "had no patience with quibbling critics". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: NitpickingSynonyms: carping (adj), caviling (adj), pettifogging (adj), quibbling (adj). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | That's just nitpicking, isn't it? (This Is Spinal Tap; writing credit: Christopher Guest; Michael McKean) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Nitpicking" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Nitpicking" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 6 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "nitpicking"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Pingeligkeit (fastidiousness, fussiness, niceness). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | つなぎ目 (a joint, a link, all-night Mah Jongg, aloof, altogether, at all, beyond doubt, certainly, complaining, entirely, extra-high-speed Touhoku-line shinkansen, feeling awkward, gleaming, going long way at steady pace, morose, pointed, sauce for dipping tempura, slippery, smooth, sound of walking, surely, tie-together point, to pitchforward, trudgingly). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | つべ"べ (complaining). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | itpickingnay kusur arayan, kusur arama, herşeye kusur bulma, herşeye kusur bulan. (various references) | ||||||||||
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"Nitpicking" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nittpicking. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "nitpicking" (pronounced ni"tpi'king) |
| 4 | -i' k i ng | politicking. |
| 3 | -k i ng | aching, antismoking, asking, attacking, backing, backtracking, baking, balking, banking, barking, basking, biking, bilking, blanking, blinking, blocking, bloodsucking, booking, bookmaking, braking, breaking, breathtaking, broking, Brooking, bucking, carjacking, caulking, chalking, checking, choking, chucking, clanking, clicking, cloaking, clucking, cocking, coking, cooking, corking, cornhusking, cracking, cranking, creaking, critiquing, croaking, debunking, decking, disliking, docking, dressmaking, drinking, ducking, duking, earmarking, earthshaking, eking, embarking, evoking, faking, filmmaking, flaking, flanking, flicking, flocking, flunking, forking, forsaking, franking, freaking, frolicking, fucking, gawking, glassmaking, groundbreaking, hacking, handshaking, hardworking, harking, Hawking, heartbreaking, hijacking, hiking, hitchhiking, Hocking, homemaking, honking, hooking, hulking, interlocking, invoking, jacking, jaywalking, jerking, joking, junking, kayaking, kicking, knocking, lacking, lawbreaking, lawmaking, leaking, licking, liking, linking, locking, looking, lovemaking, Lucking, lurking, making, marking, masking, matchmaking, meatpacking, metalworking, milking, mimicking, mistaking, mocking, moneymaking, moviemaking, mucking, muckraking, multitasking, networking, nonbanking, nonsmoking, overbooking, overlooking, overtaking, packing, painstaking, panicking, papermaking, parking, peacemaking, peaking, pecking, peeking, perking, picking, piggybacking, planking, plinking, plucking, plunking, poking, provoking, quaking, quarterbacking, racking, raking, ranking, ransacking, rebuking, reeking, reinking, remaking, remarking, restocking, retaking, rethinking, revoking, reworking, risking, rocking, rollicking, sacking, seeking, shaking, sharking, shirking, shocking, shrieking, shrinking, shucking, sinking, sleepwalking, smacking, smirking, smoking, snaking, sneaking, soaking, socking, spacewalking, spanking, sparking, speaking, spiking, squawking, squeaking, stacking, staking, stalking, steelmaking, sticking, stinking, stockbroking, stocking, stoking, streaking, striking, stroking, sucking, sulking, tacking, taking, talking, tanking, tasking, thanking, ticking, tracking, trafficking, trekking, tricking, trucking, tucking, tweaking, undertaking, undocking, unlocking, unpacking, unthinking, viking, waking, walking, whacking, winking, wisecracking, woodworking, working, wracking, wreaking, wrecking, yanking. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-i-k-n-n-p-t" | |
-2 letters: inciting. | |
-3 letters: incipit, kingpin, nicking, nitpick, picking, pinking, ticking. | |
-4 letters: citing, inking, kiting, piking, pining, tining. | |
-5 letters: icing, kinin, piing. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 74 70 69 63 6B 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .. - .--. .. -.-. -.- .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01110100 01110000 01101001 01100011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i t p i c k i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0074 0070 0069 0063 006B 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48758682756977758073 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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