hairsplitter

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See also: hair-splitter

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Etymology[edit]

hair +‎ splitter

Noun[edit]

hairsplitter (plural hairsplitters)

  1. A stickler person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).

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