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nitpicking

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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.
by allay808 October 30, 2013
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nitpicking

Nitpicking = "rompebolas" in argentina slang
No seas rompebolas, ese anime es muy bueno. Sos muy nitpicking.
by Vulkast June 29, 2020
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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.
by RGEsq August 11, 2006
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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.
by colorknit January 27, 2010
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netpicking

"Netpicking" is a type of obfuscation and/or nitpicking that generally derives from overfocus on tangential or irrelevant aspects of something as posted on the internet.

"Netpicking" is extremely common in internet message board style exchanges where words and images can be misinterpreted (intentionally or unintentionally), and dissected for technical or semantic inaccuracies, flaws, loopholes, or exploitable phraseologies.

While the "netpick" may be well-intentioned and innocent at times, it's more often used as a defense mechanism in flame wars and debates. The purpose is to ignore the greater, more obvious point, and instead redirect the discussion to something that probably shouldn't even be up for debate.

Other forms of the "netpick" manifest as pointles and often cruel hypercriticism based on "online-only" standards of excellence, beauty, competence, etc. held by the netpicker, who is most likely nowhere near a position to be judging anyone else by said standards.

"Fail" vs "Win" mentality is often a symptom of "netpickers", who rely on the buffer of anonymous internet identities to protect them from the constant hyper-scrutiny they heap upon others, merely for the purpose of entertainment through pointlessly negative commentary.
"Fritz totally ignored my point about abortion's effect on society, and started going off about the definition of 'society'! He was clearly just netpicking."

"I don't care if she has sharp knees. She's hot, and YOUR last date had to be crated at the end of the night. Stop netpicking."
by lordjupiter February 9, 2010
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Niglicking

Guy 1: "Dude, did you see me making out with that black chick?"
Guy 2: "Hell yeah, you were niglicking!"

"Quit your niglicking, cracker ass!"

Gay Guy: "I just loooooooove niglicking!"
by Mr. MooMar January 31, 2010
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Nitdicking

Some who is nitpicking and also dicks around with your stuff.
I was working with this developer and he was Nitdicking around with my website.
by H2theD August 23, 2016
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