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nit

Pronunciation: /nɪt/

The English word “nit” has 10 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The egg of a louse.
  2. A young louse.
  3. A head louse regardless of its age.
  4. A fool, a nitwit.
  5. A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
  6. A nitpicker.
  7. A candela per square metre.
  8. Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).
  9. A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.

verb

  1. To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.

Etymology

From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *-níd- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian gli̇̀nda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís)).

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