nit

Meanings

Noun

• The egg of a louse.
• A young louse.
• A head louse regardless of its age.
• A fool, a nitwit.
• A nitpicker.
• A minor shortcoming.
• A candela per square meter.
• Synonym of nat
• A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.

Verb

• To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.

Related

Similar words

• dickies

Origin

• From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *-níd- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian glìnda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς)
• From Latin nitēre ("to shine").