nitpicker:
(plural: ‘nitpickers‘; for the right pronunciation of this word, please click here)
‘to nitpick’ = to find fault with somebody over very simple mistakes or wrong-doings; to criticise
a person who makes silly criticisms over small or unimportant matters;
a person who complains about simple things in a silly way,
two nitpickers nitpicking each other
e.g.
My granny is a nitpicker; criticises whatever I do or whatever I wear.
The best way to discourage nitpickers is to ignore them.
The supervisors and inspectors in safety regulation department are often called nitpickers as they point out even minor faults of the management or employees at work place, and often threaten to shut down the office, factory, restaurant or even a school!
For a news article that shows us how this word is used for a real ‘nit picker’, a person who tries to remove nits and lice from people’s hair, as a pun, please click here, for a blog post that gives us a chance to find out if we are nitpickers, please click here and for a news article that shows us how we come across this word in our daily news, please click here.
