adjective · rare

nitty

nit·ty

nitty · nittier · nittiest

простий, легкий

простой, лёгкий, простодушный

einfach, simpel

Foolish, inaneFoolish, inane.

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UK/ˈnɪtiː/US/ˈnɪti/

» I'll spare you the nitty gritty.

Meaning

5 senses

(UK, slang)Foolish, inane.
Detailed or specific; fastidious, fussy, nit-picky.
(slang)Of a poker player: playing in an overly cautious and reactive manner.
(also, archaic, figuratively)Full of nits.
вошивийvošyvyj
(obsolete, rare)Shining; elegant, spruce.

Examples

3 sentences

I'll spare you the nitty gritty.
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He wants the nitty-gritty details.
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Let's get down to the nitty-gritty.
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Translations

2 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

full of nits:

Origin

From nit + -y. The “foolish, inane” adjective sense is from nit (“fool, nitwit”), possibly

From nit + -y. The “foolish, inane” adjective sense is from nit (“fool, nitwit”), possibly under the influence of nutty (“crazy, mad”).

Probably from nitty(-gritty).

A clipping of nitid (“bright, lustrous, shining”), or directly derived from Latin nitidus (“glittering, shining”), from niteō (“to glitter, shine; to look beautiful or bright”) (from Proto-Indo-European *ney- (“to shine”)) + -idus (“tending to”).

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