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noun
- 1. the egg or young form of a louse or other parasitic insect, especially the egg of a human head louse attached to a hair.
- 2. a foolish person: British "you stupid nit!"
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1. : the egg of a louse or other parasitic insect. also : the insect itself when young. 2. : a minor shortcoming. Most of the feedback is adulatory, some critical (his public loves to catch him in mistakes, or at least pick nits [=criticize minor shortcomings]) and some downright nasty. Rudolph Chelminski.
noun. us / nɪt / uk / nɪt / nit noun (PERSON) Add to word list. [ C ] UK informal disapproving. a nitwit informal disapproving. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Stupid and silly people. airhead. berk. birdbrain. blithering idiot. blockhead. dumb-ass. dummy. dunce. dunderhead. eejit. muppet. mutt. need your head examined idiom. nimrod.
Nit definition: the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing.. See examples of NIT used in a sentence.
1. [ nit ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA. noun. the egg of a parasitic insect, especially of a louse, often attached to a hair or a fiber of clothing. the young of such an insect. nit. 2. [ nit ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA. noun. , Chiefly British. a nitwit. nit. 3. [ nit ] Phonetic (Standard)IPA. noun. , Physics.
A nit is a louse egg. If your scalp is extra itchy, get someone (maybe even a "nitpicker" to check you for nits. There's no getting around the fact that nits are pretty gross — they're basically baby lice. Nits can be tricky to spot on an infested person's scalp, because they're smaller than a grain of rice and a very pale color.
Definition of nit noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. (Zoology) the egg of a louse, especially when adhering to human hair. 2. (Zoology) the larva of a louse or similar insect. [Old English hnitu; related to Dutch neet, Old High German hniz] nit. (nɪt) n. (Units) a unit of luminance equal to 1 candela per square metre. [C20: from Latin nitor brightness] nit.
If you refer to someone as a nit, you think they are stupid or silly. [ British , informal , disapproval ] I'd rather leave the business than work with such a nit.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English nit /nɪt/ noun [countable] 1 an egg of a louse (=a small insect that sucks blood), that is sometimes found in people’s hair 2 British English informal a silly person Examples from the Corpus nit • His nanny had a cure for nits.
nit meaning, definition, what is nit: an egg of a louse (=a small insect that ...: Learn more.
