hairsplitter

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See also: hair-splitter

English

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Etymology

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hair +‎ splitter

Noun

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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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