English
Etymology
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-West Germanic *-ārī English nitpicker
From nitpick + -er.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnɪt.pɪk.ə(ɹ)/
Noun
nitpicker (plural nitpickers)
- One who nitpicks (finds fault in unimportant details).
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations
one who nitpicks
- Arabic: مُتَصَيِّد الإِخْطَاء m (mutaṣayyid al-ʔiḵṭāʔ)
- Catalan: llepafils (ca) m or f
- Czech: puntičkář (cs) m, pedant (cs) m, hnidopich (cs) m
- Dutch: mierenneuker (nl) m, muggenzifter (nl) m
- Estonian: tähenärija
- Finnish: pilkunviilaaja
- French: pinailleur (fr), coupeur de cheveux en quatre (fr), (slang) enculeur de mouches (fr)
- German: Erbsenzähler (de) m, Erbsenzählerin (de) f, (colloquial) Korinthenkacker (de) m, (colloquial) Korinthenkackerin (de) f, Griffelspitzer (de) m, Griffelspitzerin f
- Icelandic: smámunaseggur m
- Italian: pignolo (it)
- Macedonian: ситничар m or m pl (sitničar), ситничарка f (sitničarka)
- Norwegian: kverulant (no) m
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