nitty

Meanings

Adjective

• Full of nits.
• Foolish, inane.
• (Excessively) detailed or specific; fastidious, fussy, nit-picky.
• Of a poker player: playing in an overly cautious and reactive manner.
• Shining; elegant, spruce.

Noun

• A dope fiend, a druggie.

Origin

• From nit + -y. The “foolish, inane” adjective sense is from nit, possibly under the influence of nutty.
• The origin of the noun sense (“dope fiend, druggie”) is Unknown, but could refer to a person who is under the influence of drugs to the extent that he or she is careless about personal hygiene and unkempt. Compare the verb nit.
• Probably from nitty-gritty.
• A , or directly derived from Latin nitidus ("glittering, shining"), from niteō (from Proto-Indo-European *ney- ("to shine")) + idus.