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pinaillage — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • nitpicking noun The painstaking process of removing nits (lice eggs) from someone's hair.

Senses

pinaillage is used for these senses in English:

  • hair-splitting (idiomatic) the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people.
  • nitpicking (figuratively, by extension) A process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors, particularly if the pointed-out details seem insignificant or irrelevant to all but the finder.

nitpicking — full definition

  1. noun The painstaking process of removing nits (lice eggs) from someone's hair.
  2. noun A process of finding or pointing out tiny details or errors, particularly if the pointed-out details seem insignificant or irrelevant to all but the finder.

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