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A nit is the tiny egg of a louse - a very small insect that can live in human hair. Parents and school nurses check children's hair for nits when there is a lice outbreak at school. In British English, calling someone "a nit" (informal, a bit old-fashioned) is a gentle insult meaning they did something silly. This is also where "nitpick" comes from - to nitpick is to look for very small, mistakes, the way you would pick nits out of hair one by one.
頭蝨的卵(蝨卵);(英式口語)笨蛋、傻瓜。
組成Comes from Old English "hnitu", the word for a louse egg. It does not split into smaller English pieces.
同家族的字
- nitpickbuilt directly from "nit" (the egg) + "pick" (to pick out one by one) - picking tiny, unimportant faults the way you'd pick nits from hair
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
nitnoun詞源 1/nɪt/
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The egg of a louse.
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A young louse.
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A head louse regardless of its age.
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slangA fool, a nitwit.
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A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
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A nitpicker.
nitverb詞源 1/nɪt/
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To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.
- Can’t miss no dots Every shot let caused I’m hittin Used to bag it up in the toilet My mumsie thought I was shittin Ever seen a junky fittin? Ever stepped in a room full of needles? No I ain’t doin no nittin
nitnoun詞源 2/nɪt/
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A candela per square metre.
- This brightness of this LCD screen is between 900 and 1000 nits.
nitnoun詞源 3/nɪt/
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Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).
nitnoun詞源 4/nɪt/
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card-gamespokerA player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。