Nit vs Nipt - What's the difference?
nit | nipt |
The egg of a louse.
A young louse.
(UK, slang) A fool, a nitwit.
A nitpicker.
A minor shortcoming.
(archaic) (nip)
* 1852 , James Rennie, ?George Glenny, The flower garden, its arrangement, cultivation and general management (page 61)
As a noun nit
is nest.As a verb nipt is
(archaic) (nip).nit
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) nite, from (etyl) hnitu, from (etyl) )Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* dickies (Geordie)Derived terms
* nit-pickingEtymology 2
(etyl)Anagrams
* * * ----nipt
English
Verb
(head)- the young shoots of the still hardier ivy, nipt and destroyed by an accidental night's frost in the early summer.