to nitpick, to split hairs
🔊 2015, Andrea Camilleri, Dominique Vittoz transl., La reine de Poméranie, Fayard, Trois
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to nag, pester · to harass · to become enraged or irritated due to gadfly bites
çekim: geçmiş assillàto · ortaç assillàto · şimdiki assìlla · ulaç assillànte
eş: tormentare, infastidire, molestare, importunare, insistere, ossessionare
köken: From assillo (“horsefly, gadfly; nagging worry”) + -are. Compare Sicilian siḍḍijari (often incorrectly written as siḍḍiari).
aile: assillante
to nitpick, to be fastidious
çekim: geçmiş mierenneukten · ortaç gemierenneukt · şimdiki mierenneukt · ulaç mierenneukend
eş: haarkloven, insectencopulatie, kommaneuken
köken: From mier (“ant”) + -en- + neuken (“to fuck”).
aile: mierenneuker, mierenneukerij
alternative form of atanazar · to disturb, to pester, to nag
çekim: geçmiş atazanei · ortaç atazanado · şimdiki atazana
eş: azucrinar
köken: From atanazar, through metathesis.
diminutive of άλογο (álogo): foal, young horse. · hobby horse, rocking horse · roundabout, gallopers
çekim: çoğul αλογάκια
eş: αλογατάκι
köken: άλογο (álogo, “horse”) + -άκι (-áki, “diminutive form”)
to find fault, to nitpick, to rebuke, to censure · to feel guilty · to question (a suspect)
çekim: geçmiş 咎めた
🔊 些細なミスを咎めない
🔊 黙っているのは気が咎める
🔊 夜道で警官に咎められた
Korece 🔊 조랑말 /t͡ɕo̞ɾa̠ŋma̠ɭ/ pony
to nag, to harp, to repetitiously request or bring up something
çekim: geçmiş tjatade · ortaç tjatande · ulaç tjatande
köken: tjat + -a
aile: uttjatad
to buy high-end, hi-fi products · to act fancy and/or pedantic, nitpick
çekim: geçmiş hifistellyt · şimdiki hifistelee · ulaç hifistelevä
köken: hifi + -stellä
aile: hifistelijä, hifistely
to nag
çekim: geçmiş cicălit · ortaç cicălit · şimdiki cicălește
köken: From cicală + -i.
pony
çekim: çoğul pónik
köken: From English pony.
aile: pónis, pónizik, póniló
pack-horse, jade, hack
çekim: çoğul caballī · tamlayan caballī
köken: Uncertain; often cited as borrowed from Gaulish *kaballos, from Proto-Celtic *kaballos, perhaps ultimately an Asiatic borrowing or Wanderwort, compare Ancient Greek καβάλλης (kabállēs, “nag”), Proto-Slavic *kobýla (“mare”), Persian کول (kaval, “second class horse of mixed blood”), and possibly Karakhanid kevel (at) (“well-bred fast (horse)”). Alternatively, borrowed alongside Greek from…
aile: caballa, caballārius, caballātiō, caballicō, caballinus, caballiō, cavallus
nagging, quarrelsome, hard to please · whimsical
çekim: karşılaştırma lebih cerewet · üstünlük paling cerewet
to grumble; to complain; to nag
köken: From nhằn.
aile: cằn nhằn cử nhử
to split hairs
çekim: geçmiş filí prim · ortaç filat prim
hack (horse) · stallion
çekim: çoğul facos
köken: First attested in 1707. From faca, from Old French haque, from Middle English hack. Compare Spanish jaco, Asturian facu.