nitty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪtiː/
note: older
ipa: /ˈnɪtɪ/
ipa: /ˈnɪti/
ipa: /-ɾi/
rhymes: -ɪti
Forms: form: nittier
form: more nitty
form: nittiest
form: most nitty
Etymology: Probably from nitty(-gritty).
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, it’s that Secretariat is overrated. OK, exhale. I’m not trolling you. I’m just being extremely nitty about the marginal shades of “really, really great.” By “overrated,” I certainly don’t mean to imply that Secretariat isn’t the best 3-year-old American racehorse in history – he is.
ref: 2015 June 12, Benjamin Morris, “Where Have You Gone, Secretariat?”, in FiveThirtyEight, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2016:
text: There are only a few nits to pick. The nittiest is, of course, the supposed needlessness^([sic – meaning needless]) death of the dumb and worthless Rickon Stark.
ref: 2016 June 20, Ned Lannamann, “Slog: Game of Thrones Recap! Talk Is Cheap in ‘The Battle of the Bastards’”, in The Stranger, Seattle, Wash., archived from the original on 30 Nov 2017:
text: […] I knew I was not going to get every nitty detail of the life of Radric Delantic Davis, Gucci [Mane]’s legal name. Laflare [i.e., Mane] rarely speaks about his personal life, so I knew I wasn’t going to hear all the details of when he was a hustler or every painstaking detail behind every song.
ref: 2017 September 29, Jared Prenda, “The Autobiography of Gucci Mane Review”, in The Tower: The Catholic University of America’s Independent Student Newspaper since 1922, Washington, D.C., archived from the original on 11 Sep 2018:
text: “Yes, there were discussions but then it came down to the nitty stuff that players don’t want to get involved in – sell-on fees and things like that,” said the striker [Jamie Maclaren]. “And I got to a point where I said, ‘look, whatever is the quickest solution that can help me get there’.[”]
ref: 2018 August 12, Moira Gordon, “Jamie Maclaren delighted to be back at Hibs after summer in limbo”, in The Scotsman, Edinburgh, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2018:
synonyms: word: anal-retentive
word: choosy
word: conscientious
word: dainty
word: exacting
word: fastidious
word: finical
word: finicking
word: finickity
word: finicky
word: finikin
word: fussy
word: hypercritical
word: lily-handed
word: meticulous
word: niggly
word: nitpickish
word: nit-picky
word: nitty
word: overcritical
word: overscrupulous
word: particular
word: pedantic
word: pernickety
word: persnickety
word: picky
qualifier: Excessively
glosses: detailed or specific; fastidious, fussy, nit-picky.
examples: text: Over the past year and a half Isildur1 has captivated the poker community with his overly aggressive play and mesmerizing swings in the highest cash games online. His most intriguing characteristic isn’t his combativeness or his disregard for money; however, it’s his anonymity. […] [Phil] Hellmuth is far too nitty to be the face behind an online maniac such as Isildur1, he’s already rumored to be "#1_Lucky_One" and he’s clearly not spending copious amounts of time grinding high stakes in Sweden.
ref: 2011 January 7, Rich Ryan, “PokerNews Top Five: Isildur1 Dream List”, in PokerNews, archived from the original on 01 Sep 2016:
text: I recently played the following hand in a $2–$5 game in Las Vegas. I had a $1,000 stack. A nitty regular player opened from under the gun for $20 with a $1,000 stack. Another nitty player directly to my right called. This player had about $350 behind.
ref: 2012 July 29, Ed Miller, “Poker Strategy With Ed Miller – Bet Sizing Tells: Knowing what to Look For”, in Card Player, archived from the original on 12 Sep 2016:
text: Good2cu figures he can budget $50,000—around 25 percent of his net worth—for a new set of wheels, although a nittier recess of his poker mind knows that buying new is for suckers. Cars lose a significant portion of their value the moment you drive them off the lot.
ref: 2013, Jonathan Grotenstein, Storms Reback, chapter 30, in Ship It Holla Ballas!: How a Bunch of 19-year-old College Dropouts Used the Internet to Become Poker’s LOUDEST, CRAZIEST, and RICHEST Crew, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:
text: These days, even the nittiest regular players use continuation bets. But not every flop calls for a continuation bet from every hand.
ref: 2015 March 8, Ed Miller, “Poker Strategy With Ed Miller: Attacking Bad Continuation Bets: Miller Explains Why You Shouldn’t Continuation Bet Every Time”, in Card Player, archived from the original on 01 Apr 2017:
text: "Ladies Night" on Poker Night in America was far from nitty, so naturally the bets continued once the game wrapped up for the night.
ref: 2018 August 15, Pamela Maldonado, “Prop Bets: Lily Kiletto to Bench Press; Joey Ingram Makes Music Video”, in PokerNews, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2018:
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Of a poker player: playing in an overly cautious and reactive manner.