Summary
English to Dutch: more detail...
- hairsplitting:
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Wiktionary:
- hair-splitting → haarkloverij, muggenzifterij, mierenneukerij
English
Detailed Translations for hair-splitting from English to Dutch
hairsplitting:
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the hairsplitting (acting difficult; quibbling)
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the hairsplitting (niggling; nitpicking)
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the hairsplitting (nitpicking)
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the hairsplitting (quibbling over words)
Translation Matrix for hairsplitting:
| Noun | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| haarkloverij | hairsplitting; niggling; nitpicking | arguing; pettifoggery; quibble; quibbling; splitting hairs |
| moeilijk doen | acting difficult; hairsplitting; quibbling | |
| muggenzifterij | hairsplitting; nitpicking | |
| muggezifterij | hairsplitting; niggling; nitpicking | |
| woordenzifterij | hairsplitting; quibbling over words | |
| - | word-splitting | |
| Adjective | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| - | finespun |
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Cross Translation:
| From | To | Via |
|---|---|---|
| • hair-splitting | → haarkloverij; muggenzifterij; mierenneukerij | ↔ Haarspalterei — übertriebene Kleinlichkeit |
| • hair-splitting | → mierenneukerij | ↔ enculage de mouches — (vulgaire) (figuré) péjoratif|fr arguties pour des vétilles, argumentation oiseuse, absconse et parfois pédante, sur des détails. |