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{
"etymology_text": "* From the gerund form of split hairs",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hair-splittings",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
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"examples": [
{
"text": "2006, Ian Aitken, in The Guardian, Richard Clements Obituary\nDick's Tribune poked endless fun at the hair-splitting sectarianism of the various Trotskyist groups jostling on the fringes of the Labour party at that time."
}
],
"glosses": [
"the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people."
],
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"links": [
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],
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"(idiomatic) the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hair-splittery"
},
{
"word": "quibbling"
},
{
"word": "pilpul"
}
],
"tags": [
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"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "hiusten halkominen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"slang"
],
"word": "enculage de mouches"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"word": "couper les cheveux en quatre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pinaillage"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "diptérosodomie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Haarspalterei"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"word": "szőrszálhasogatás"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hártogun"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hårkløveri"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dotóšnostʹ",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"word": "дото́шность"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zanúdstvo",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"word": "зану́дство"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vʺjédlivostʹ",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"word": "въе́дливость"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"word": "hårklyveri"
}
]
}
],
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"tags": [
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"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "hair-splitting"
}
{
"etymology_text": "* From the gerund form of split hairs",
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"tags": [
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}
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"pos": "noun",
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"text": "2006, Ian Aitken, in The Guardian, Richard Clements Obituary\nDick's Tribune poked endless fun at the hair-splitting sectarianism of the various Trotskyist groups jostling on the fringes of the Labour party at that time."
}
],
"glosses": [
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],
"links": [
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],
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"(idiomatic) the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people."
],
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"idiomatic",
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"tags": [
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],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "hair-splittery"
},
{
"word": "quibbling"
},
{
"word": "pilpul"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"idiomatic"
],
"word": "hiusten halkominen"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"slang"
],
"word": "enculage de mouches"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"word": "couper les cheveux en quatre"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "pinaillage"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "diptérosodomie"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Haarspalterei"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"word": "szőrszálhasogatás"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "hártogun"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "hårkløveri"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "dotóšnostʹ",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"word": "дото́шность"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zanúdstvo",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"word": "зану́дство"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vʺjédlivostʹ",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"word": "въе́дливость"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent",
"word": "hårklyveri"
}
],
"word": "hair-splitting"
}
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