Nitpicking
lice
in her son's hair.Nitpicking is a term, first attested in 1956, that describes the action of giving too much attention to unimportant detail.[1][2] A person who nitpicks is termed as a nitpicker.[1][3]
The terminology originates from the common act of manually removing
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.[5]
Nitpicking has been used to describe dishonest insurers[6] and bullying employers, or even bullying family members.[7]
References
Look up nitpicking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- ^ a b "Definition of NITPICK". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
- ^ "NITPICKING | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary". dictionary.cambridge.org. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
- ISBN 978-81-203-5225-4.
- ISBN 978-0-7234-3540-2.
- ISBN 978-0-19-165345-2.
- ^ Jean-Marc Bourgeon, Pierre Picard. Fraudulent Claims and Nitpicky Insurers. cahier de recherche 2012-06. 2012
- ISSN 2152-1034
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