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- [nit]
- /nɪt/
- /nɪt/
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- [nit]
- /nɪt/
Definitions of nit word
- noun nit a nitwit. 1
- noun nit The egg or young form of a louse or other parasitic insect, especially the egg of a head louse attached to a human hair. 1
- noun nit stupid person 1
- noun plural nit head lice 1
- noun plural nit Nits are the eggs of insects called lice which live in people's hair. 0
- countable noun nit If you refer to someone as a nit, you think they are stupid or silly. 0
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Origin of nit
First appearance:
before 900 One of the 4% oldest English words
before 900; Middle English nite, Old English hnitu, cognate with Dutch neet, German Niss, Norwegian nit
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Parts of speech for Nit
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adjective
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
nit popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 87% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
nit usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for nit
noun nit
- bug — A bug is an insect or similar small creature.
- insect — any animal of the class Insecta, comprising small, air-breathing arthropods having the body divided into three parts (head, thorax, and abdomen), and having three pairs of legs and usually two pairs of wings.
- parasite — an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.
- particle — a minute portion, piece, fragment, or amount; a tiny or very small bit: a particle of dust; not a particle of supporting evidence.
- speck — a small spot differing in color or substance from that of the surface or material upon which it appears or lies: Specks of soot on the window sill.
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