hair-splitting
çekim: çoğul Haarspaltereien · tamlayan Haarspaltereien
eş: Rabulistik, Sophistik, Spitzfindigkeit, Wortklauberei
🔊 Ich halte es für Haarspalterei, ob das nun Deklaration, Manifest oder Grundsätze heißt.
Buscar todos los defectos posibles a algo, incluso si no los hay.
eş: buscarle la quinta pata al gato
split hairs
çekim: çoğul calie
to split hairs, quibble, cavil
çekim: geçmiş haarkloofden · ortaç gehaarkloofd · şimdiki haarklooft · ulaç haarklovend
eş: insectencopulatie, kommaneuken, mierenneuken
köken: From haar (“hair”) + kloven (“to cleave”).
to imply · to involve · to implicate
çekim: geçmiş impliquei · ortaç implicado · şimdiki implica
köken: Learned borrowing from Latin implicāre. Doublet of empregar.
🔊 A Laura está implicando com o João.
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
hair-splitting
çekim: çoğul hårklyverier · tamlayan hårklyveris
köken: hår + klyva + -eri
to split hairs
köken: Literally, “to split [a] hair in four”.
to find fault, nitpick
çekim: geçmiş मीन-मेख निकालता · şimdiki मीन-मेख निकालता है
köken: Literally "to distinguish between मीन (mīn, “fish; Pisces”) and मेख (mekh, “ram; Aries”)," which are adjacent Zodiac signs.
🔊 वह मेरी हर बात में मीन-मेख निकालता है।
to split hairs
çekim: geçmiş despicat firul în patru · ortaç despicat firul în patru · şimdiki despică firul în patru
köken: Literally, “split the strand [of hair] in four”. Compare Italian spaccare il capello in quattro (literally “split the hair in four”) and French couper les cheveux en quatre (literally “cut hair in four”).
to jeer, mock, satirize · to gainsay, quibble, or engage in sophistry
çekim: ortaç cavillātus · şimdiki cavillātur · ulaç cavillāns
köken: Etymology tree Latin cavilla Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin cavillor From cavilla (“jesting, banter”) + -ō.
aile: cavillābundus, cavillātiō, cavillātor, cavillātrix, cavillātus, cavillōsus
nagging, quarrelsome, hard to please · whimsical
çekim: karşılaştırma lebih cerewet · üstünlük paling cerewet
to nitpick; to quibble; to be petty · to be stubborn; to be obstinate
köken: Sino-Vietnamese word from 拘執 (“rigid/stubborn”).
to split hairs
çekim: geçmiş filí prim · ortaç filat prim
quibble, hair-splitting
çekim: çoğul hártoganir · tamlayan hártogunar
köken: Literally, “hair pulling”, from toga í (“to pull”) + hár (“hair”).
to unstitch, unseam, rip the seam of
çekim: geçmiş mfettaq · ortaç mfettaq
köken: Etymology tree Arabic فَتَّقَ (fattaqa) Maltese fettaq Inherited from Arabic فَتَّقَ (fattaqa).
to nag, nitpick, dwell on, be a nuisance
cmn 🔊 吹毛求疵 , 吹求 , 找岔子 , 找碴 , 指指點點 /指指点点 , 挑刺