Summary
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- nitpicker:
- nitpick:
- nit-picker:
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Wiktionary:
- nit-picker → enculeur de mouches
- nitpicker → coupeur de cheveux en quatre, enculeur de mouches, pinailleur
- nitpicker → ergoteur, enculeur de mouches, pinailleur, chipoteur, coupeur de cheveux en quatre
- nitpick → chicaner, chipoter, chercher la petite bête, pinailler, mégoter, mégotter
English
Detailed Translations for nit-picker from English to French
nitpicker:
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the nitpicker (fault-finder; censurer)
Translation Matrix for nitpicker:
| Noun | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| chicaneur | censurer; fault-finder; nitpicker | caviler; caviller; critical person; fault finder; fault-finder; hair-splitter; meddler; nit-picker |
| chicanier | censurer; fault-finder; nitpicker | |
| ergoteur | censurer; fault-finder; nitpicker | critical person; fault finder; meddler; nit-picker |
| Modifier | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| chicaneur | captious; carping; fault-finding; nitpicking | |
| chicanier | captious; carping; fault-finding; nitpicking | |
| ergoteur | captious; carping; fault-finding; nitpicking |
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Wiktionary Translations for nitpicker:
nitpicker
Cross Translation:
noun
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one who nitpicks
- nitpicker → coupeur de cheveux en quatre; enculeur de mouches; pinailleur
Cross Translation:
| From | To | Via |
|---|---|---|
| • nitpicker | → ergoteur; enculeur de mouches; pinailleur; chipoteur; coupeur de cheveux en quatre | ↔ Korinthenkacker — vorwiegend in Deutschland: pedantischer, kleinlicher, perfektionistischer und gleichzeitig auch rechthaberischer, altkluger Mensch |
nit-picker form of nitpick:
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nitpick (carp; cavil; find fault; find fault with)
Translation Matrix for nitpick:
| Verb | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| pinailler | carp; cavil; find fault; find fault with; nitpick | carp; cavil |
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Wiktionary Translations for nitpick:
nitpick
verb
nitpick
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to correct minutiae or find fault
- nitpick → chicaner; chipoter; chercher la petite bête; pinailler
verb
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(familier, fr) (figuré) Regarder trop aux détails, ergoter.
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Faire des difficultés pour des riens
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négocier sur des détails inutiles (des mégots, métaphoriquement parlant), vouloir économiser mesquinement.
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(familier, fr) péjoratif|fr S’attarder sur des détails sans intérêt, argumenter avec des précisions superflues, de façon mesquine.
nit-picker:
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the nit-picker (fault finder; meddler; critical person)
Translation Matrix for nit-picker:
| Noun | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| chicaneur | critical person; fault finder; meddler; nit-picker | caviler; caviller; censurer; fault-finder; hair-splitter; nitpicker |
| ergoteur | critical person; fault finder; meddler; nit-picker | censurer; fault-finder; nitpicker |
| Modifier | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| chicaneur | captious; carping; fault-finding; nitpicking | |
| ergoteur | captious; carping; fault-finding; nitpicking |
Wiktionary Translations for nit-picker:
nit-picker
noun
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(vulgaire) péjoratif|fr Individu pointilleux, tatillon, qui ergoter sur des vétilles.