/ˈnɪtiː/, /ˈnɪtɪ/, /ˈnɪti/
OriginFrom nit + -y. The “foolish, inane” adjective sense is from nit (“fool, nitwit”), possibly under the influence of nutty (“crazy, mad”).
The origin of the noun sense (“dope fiend, druggie”) is unknown, but could refer to a person who is under the influence of drugs to the extent that he or she is careless about personal hygiene and unkempt. Compare the verb nit (“to be a nitty”).
- also, archaic, figurativelyFull of nits.
“About mid-night do I walke, and for the trickes I play they call me Pach. When I find a slut asleepe, I smuch her face if it be cleane; but if it be durty, I wash it in the next pisse-pot that I can f”
“Tuc[ca]. […] Can thy Author doe it impudently enough? / Hiſt[rio]. O, I warrant you, Captaine: and ſpitefully inough too; he ha's one of the moſt ouerflowing villanous wits, in Rome. He will ſlander a”
“Rich people haue the world at will, / Trades fade, but Lawiers flourish still, / Iacke would be married unto Gyll; / but care will kill a Cat. / Are you there, Sirrah, with your beares? / A Barbers sh”
- British, slangFoolish, inane.
“Stephen Colbert went overtime to get into the “nitty crazy” of President Donald Trump’s press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, noting that, he was shaken to his core, but “a”
- detailed or specific; fastidious, fussy, nit-picky.
“Clearly, it’s that Secretariat is overrated. OK, exhale. I’m not trolling you. I’m just being extremely nitty about the marginal shades of “really, really great.” By “overrated,” I certainly don’t mea”
“There are only a few nits to pick. The nittiest is, of course, the supposed needlessness^([sic – meaning needless]) death of the dumb and worthless Rickon Stark.”
“[…] I knew I was not going to get every nitty detail of the life of Radric Delantic Davis, Gucci [Mane]’s legal name. Laflare [i.e., Mane] rarely speaks about his personal life, so I knew I wasn’t goi”
- slangOf a poker player: playing in an overly cautious and reactive manner.
“Over the past year and a half Isildur1 has captivated the poker community with his overly aggressive play and mesmerizing swings in the highest cash games online. His most intriguing characteristic is”
“I recently played the following hand in a $2–$5 game in Las Vegas. I had a $1,000 stack. A nitty regular player opened from under the gun for $20 with a $1,000 stack. Another nitty player directly to ”
“Good2cu figures he can budget $50,000—around 25 percent of his net worth—for a new set of wheels, although a nittier recess of his poker mind knows that buying new is for suckers. Cars lose a signific”
- obsolete, rareShining; elegant, spruce.
“O dapper, rare, complete, sweet nitty youth! / Jesu Maria! How his clothes appear / Cross'd and recross'd with lace, sure for some fear / Lest that some spirit with a tippet mace / Should with a ghast”
- Multicultural-London-English, slangA dope fiend, a druggie.
“See me breeze in a cream Bentley / Fronting in the sun that’s two-seated / Believe it, pull up to the light and now you looking defeated / Girl, grilling my ice got you heated (yeah) / Yep, beef with ”
“Trapping ain't dead, the nitty still clucking and ringing my phone / Chilling with bro, talking ’bout money, dough to the dome”
“I got some nitties on this phone / They ring me consistently / I know the ops hate this face / wanna make me #history”
Formsnittier(comparative) · more nitty(comparative) · nittiest(superlative) · most nitty(superlative) · nittie(alternative) · nitties(plural)
Source: Wiktionary