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nitpicking 

Verb-
Looking for small or unimportant errors or faults, esp. in order to criticize unnecessarily.
My nitpicking ass friends always want to pick fights over the littlest things.
nitpicking by allay808 October 30, 2013

nutpicking 

The practice of sifting through the comments of blogs, email threads, discussion groups and other user generated content in an attempt find choice quotes proving that the advocates for or against a particular political opinion are unreasonable, uninformed extremists.
When Jonah has no substantive arguments for his point, he frequently resorts to nutpicking in order to demonize progressives.
nutpicking by RGEsq August 11, 2006
Someoen who, rather than attack the merits of your argument will bring up completely irrelevant shit, like how you mispronounced a word or, in the case of the internet, typed a word wrong.
Person 1: That makes absolutely no fjcking sense!
Person 2 (Nitpick): Oh, I'm so sorry that didnt make any *fjcking* sense. Jesus, anyone who types the word fucking wrong must be an idiot. I win the argument.
nitpick by oh shit i'm dead April 3, 2005
When someone (who may have been recently pwned) Will dig up any random shit to try to get back at you or to make you look wrong.
John - Yeah, there is no way that the4 skatepark will open by january

Nitpicker - What was that? I didnt know of an english word called "The4"

John - It was a typo u asshole...

Nitpicker - Since when is U a word? I always thought there was a Y and an O in front of it, but thats just me *Rolls eyes*
nitpick by Pacman12 August 18, 2007

Nitpickery 

The high crime of excessive, minute, and unusually unwarranted criticism.
Time to call The Razor, Ponce's being held for nitpickery again!
Nitpickery by indomatt239 September 14, 2008

knitpicking

When finishing a knitting project, there are ends of yarn that stick out. "Knitpicking" is the act of removing these ends of yarn.

Knitpicking is given this name because it is tedious and time-consuming, and is something many knitters hate.
Knitpicking is done by taking a needlepoint needle or similar and running the excess yarn under the inside of the garment several times, then cutting off the excess.
knitpicking by colorknit January 27, 2010
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