Nitpicking
Meticulously looking for trivial errors
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Nitpicking is a term, first attested in 1956, that describes the action of giving too much attention to unimportant detail.[1][2] A person who nitpicks is termed as a nitpicker.[1][3]
The terminology originates from the common act of manually removing nits (the eggs of lice, generally head lice) from another person's hair.[4]
As nitpicking inherently requires fastidious attention to detail, the term has become appropriated to describe the practice of meticulously searching for minor, even trivial errors in detail.[5]
Nitpicking has been used to describe dishonest insurers[6] and bullying employers, or even bullying family members.[7]
