Crossword clues for nit
nit
- It might be picked
- Head louse egg
- "Picked" complaint
- Trivial quibble
- Trivial detail
- Trivial criticism
- Trifling fault
- Tiny peeve
- Tiny bug to pick
- Tiny beef
- Start to pick?
- Start for "wit" or "picker"
- Something the picky pick?
- Small gripe
- Picker's trivial concern?
- Picker's intro
- Parasite egg
- Oldest basketball tourney in the U.S
- Niggling detail
- Minor imperfection
- March hoops tourney
- Little point to pick
- Little peeve
- Juvenile louse
- It's picked by the picky
- It can be picked
- College basketball tourney, for short
- Bug egg
- ''Wit'' and ''pick'' lead-in
- Word before pick
- With picking, trivial fault-finding
- Wit preceder
- Wit and pick lead-in
- What a picky person may pick
- What a petty person may pick
- What a pedant picks
- Very minor point
- Trivial picking point
- Trivial fault
- Trivial concern
- Trifling quibble
- Tiny thing to "pick"
- Tiny gripe
- Tight player, in poker
- Thing picked by a quibbler?
- TCU won it in '17: Abbr
- Spring coll. tournament
- Sponsor of a college basketball tourney that competes with March Madness: Abbr
- Something small to pick
- Something picked by a persnickety person
- Something a pedant picks
- Small, unimportant complaint
- Small problem
- Small peeve
- Small louse
- Prelude to pick?
- Prefix with "picker"
- Postseason hoops competition, for short
- Point trivially picked
- Piddling quibble
- Piddling point to pick
- Picky start to pick?
- Picky problem
- Picky person's point
- Picky person's pick?
- Picker's point
- Picker's issue
- Picker lead-in
- Picked thing
- Picked beef?
- Pickable point
- Pick preceder
- Pick or wit
- Pick opening
- Pick a ___ (find something small to criticize)
- Picayune thing to pick
- Picayune point to pick
- Petty quibble
- Petty gripe
- Petty grievance
- Pedant's discovery
- Oft-picked item
- Minor thing to "pick"
- Minor point to pick
- Minor peeve
- Minor issue
- Micromanager's excess
- Mar. hoops tourney
- Louse to be
- Louse baby
- Little criticism to "pick"
- Little criticism
- Little carp
- Larva of a parasite
- It's hardly worth picking
- Insignificant point
- Insignificant fault
- Insignificant complaint
- Have a ___ to pick
- Handpicked thing
- Gripe that's picked
- Garden event each spring
- Fussy picker's target
- Fussbudget's criticism
- Event whose MVPs have included George Mikan and Walt Frazier
- Detail to pick?
- Critical point?
- Critic's pick
- Collegiate basketball competition, for short
- College hoops tourney: Abbr
- College hoops tournament
- College hoops contest since 1938 (abbr.)
- Coll. cagers' contest
- Bit of carping
- Biannual college basketball event: Abbr
- Basketball tournament at MSG
- Basketball championship of which St. John's has won the most, 6
- Annual roundball competition (abbr.)
- Annual NYC basketball tourney
- Annual court tourn
- Annual competition first won by the Temple Owls, for short
- Annual college hoops contest
- Annual basketball tourney
- Annual B-ball tourney
- A meticulous person might pick one
- A basketball tourn
- "Picked" picayune point
- "Pick" lead-in
- -- to pick
- ___-picker (overly critical one)
- ____ -pick
- ___ Season Tip-Off (annual basketball tournament)
- ___ pick (cavil)
- __ relude to "pick"
- Mar. tourney
- Parasite's egg or young
- Annual basketball event: Abbr.
- Annual hoops event, familiarly
- Annual sports event at 47-Across
- Something to pick?
- Postseason contest, for short
- Oldest U.S. hoops contest
- Louse-to-be
- Small point to criticize
- Baby buggy?
- Tiny carp?
- It may be picked by the picky
- N.Y.C. hoops contest
- Hoops competition, briefly
- Coll. hoops competition
- Critic's pick?
- Annual B-ball championship
- Annual sports event: Abbr.
- Trivial pursuit
- Tiny point to argue
- Link
- Minor carp
- Small criticism, slangily
- Annual b-ball shootout
- Young parasite
- Niggling criticism
- Lousy egg?
- Something that's picked
- Tiny criticism to "pick"
- Little louse
- Point to argue
- Insect egg
- Something to be picked
- Minor objection
- Annual hoops contest, for short
- Picked peeve
- Annual coll. basketball contest
- Small beef
- Annual coll. basketball competition
- Have a ___ to pick (complain about something minor)
- Petty peeve
- Little complaint
- Thing to pick
- Little beef
- Minor criticism
- Baby beef?
- Tiny complaint
- Annual coll. hoops contest
- Trivial complaint
- Thing that's picked
- Annual hoops event, for short
- A picky person may pick one
- Pedantic quibble
- Minor complaint
- Point to pick
- Small grouse
- Dunderhead, in Dover
- Minute beef
- Little issue to "pick"
- Cavil
- Picayune quibble
- Unimportant flaw
- Hairsplitter's objection
- ___ Season Tip-Off (annual hoops event)
- Trivial gripe
- Small carp
- Often attached to a hair or item of clothing
- Egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse
- Thing to be picked
- Basketball tourn. letters
- Unit of luminous intensity
- Coll. basketball tourney
- Kind of picker or wit
- Wit or pick preceder
- Annual hoops contest: Abbr.
- It's a little louse
- Coll. basketball contest
- Pick or wit preceder
- Pick lead-in
- See 29 Across
- Postseason coll. hoopsters' contest
- Immature parasite
- Egg of a PArasitic insect
- Kind of wit or pick?
- N.Y.C. court tournament
- A basketball tourn.
- Annual court tourn.
- Annual b-ball event
- Bryant or Loos
- Kind of pick or wit
- Egg; fool
- Egg; idiot
- Egg of a head louse
- Egg of a louse
- Egg noodle
- Egg in spoon, I think
- Egg container upside-down
- Wally books to go round India
- Fool, n: one with the mouth of Trump
- Fool turned up in tank top
- Louse egg
- Annual basketball event: Abbr
- Idiot; egg
- Baby bug
- Building block
- Tiny insect egg
- Young louse
- Wit's starter
- Young bug
- Small matter
- Young insect
- Trivial objection
- Small point to pick
- Trivial matter
- Petty complaint
- Small complaint
- Minor gripe
- Insignificant detail
- Future louse
- Putative louse
- Oft-picked thing
- Basketball tourney: Abbr
- Trivial point to pick
- Minor matter
- Lousy pick?
- Complaint that's "picked"
- College basketball tourney: Abbr
- Annual sports event: Abbr
- Trivial thing
- Tiny louse
- Petty criticism, slangily
- Minor quibble
- Little thing to pick
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nit \Nit\ (n[i^]t), n. [AS. hnitu; akin to D. neet, G. niss, OHG. niz; cf. Gr. koni`s, koni`dos, Icel. gnit, Sw. gnet, Dan. gnid, Russ. & Pol. gnida, Bohem. hnida, W. nedd.] (Zo["o]l.) The egg of a louse or other small insect.
Nit grass (Bot.), a pretty annual European grass ( Gastridium lendigerum), with small spikelets somewhat resembling a nit. It is also found in California and Chile.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hnitu "louse egg, nit," from Proto-Germanic *hnito- (cognates: Norwegian nit, Middle Dutch nete, Dutch neet, Middle High German niz, German Niß), from PIE root *knid- "egg of a louse" (cognates: Russian, Polish gnida, Czech knida; Greek konidos, genitive konis "egg of a louse").
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 The egg of a louse. 2 A young louse. 3 (context UK slang English) A fool, a nitwit. 4 A nitpicker. 5 A minor shortcoming. Etymology 2
n. A candela per square meter.
WordNet
n. a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
Wikipedia
Nit or NIT may refer to:
Usage examples of "nit".
She liked this Nit, who could not be called Nita because she was an inny.
Kellian had let Nit try to write programming code, letting her make mistakes and fix them.
Grabbing Nit by the arm, she ducked behind the data console, crouching.
Kellian turned to upbraid her, there stood Sister Patricia Margaret Logue, holding Nit by the ear.
Kellian waved Nit over to her, but Nit sat as though nailed to the stool.
For all her fears, Nit was starting to enjoy playing cat and mouse with Hilde.
No one was there to hear her recitation, but Kellian was sure Nit had faithfully recounted them.
The authorities might eventually have been forced to admit defeat, had it not been for the random, fortuitous entrance of a golden nit, no larger than a bumblebee, into the private study of the Cavalier vo Meureille.
With a buzz and a whir of metallic wings, a nit of NuNu took to the air, circling about in search of escape or concealment.
Obediently Kairthe wrenched the shoe from her foot and struck, missing the nit but hitting the window.
A pane shattered, and the nit, freighted with lethal information, glided for the gap.
Kairthe and Eliste screamed, Prince vo Plume barked and cavorted wildly, and the nit zipped out of range.
Wildly, Eliste flung the book, and the excited nit whizzed straight at her face.
She opened her eyes to discover the nit, trapped and buzzing furiously, its sting buried in her wrist.
The nit struggled, the tweezers vibrated between her fingers, and Eliste tightened her grip.