Summary
English to German: more detail...
- nitpicking:
- nitpick:
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Wiktionary:
- nit-picking → Erbsenzählerei, Haarspalterei, Spitzfindigkeit, Wortklauberei
- nitpicking → Korinthenkackerei
- nitpick → pingelig, schikanieren
- nitpick → feilschen
English
Detailed Translations for nit-picking from English to German
nitpicking:
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nitpicking (carping; fault-finding)
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nitpicking (captious; fault-finding; carping)
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nitpicking (carping; captious)
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the nitpicking (niggling; hairsplitting)
die Haarspalterei
Translation Matrix for nitpicking:
| Noun | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| Haarspalterei | hairsplitting; niggling; nitpicking | acting difficult; arguing; hairsplitting; quibbling; splitting hairs |
| Other | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| - | finicky | |
| Modifier | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| mäkelig | carping; fault-finding; nitpicking | critical; delicate; perilous; precarious; touchy |
| tadelsüchtig | captious; carping; fault-finding; nitpicking | |
| tatelzüchtig | captious; carping; nitpicking |
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Wiktionary Translations for nitpicking:
nitpicking
noun
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(umgangssprachlich) mitteldeutsch, norddeutsch: ein anderer Ausdruck für Pedanterie, Kleinlichkeit, Perfektionismus und gleichzeitig auch Rechthaberei, Altklugheit, Haarspalterei, Besserwisserei und aber eine Mischung aus diesen Erscheinungen
nit-picking form of nitpick:
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nitpick (carp; cavil; find fault; find fault with)
Translation Matrix for nitpick:
| Verb | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| alles besser wissen | carp; cavil; find fault; find fault with; nitpick | |
| bemängeln | carp; cavil; find fault; find fault with; nitpick | carp; castigate; cavil; censure; criticise; criticize; decry; find fault with; run down; slate |
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Wiktionary Translations for nitpick:
nitpick
Cross Translation:
verb
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to correct minutiae or find fault
- nitpick → pingelig; schikanieren
Cross Translation:
| From | To | Via |
|---|---|---|
| • nitpick | → feilschen | ↔ chipoter — Faire des difficultés pour des riens |
| • nitpick | → feilschen | ↔ mégoter — négocier sur des détails inutiles (des mégots, métaphoriquement parlant), vouloir économiser mesquinement. |
| • nitpick | → feilschen | ↔ mégotter — négocier sur des détails inutiles (des mégots, métaphoriquement parlant), vouloir économiser mesquinement. |
Wiktionary Translations for nit-picking:
Cross Translation:
| From | To | Via |
|---|---|---|
| • nit-picking | → Erbsenzählerei; Haarspalterei; Spitzfindigkeit; Wortklauberei | ↔ enculage de mouches — (vulgaire) (figuré) péjoratif|fr arguties pour des vétilles, argumentation oiseuse, absconse et parfois pédante, sur des détails. |
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