"hairsplitter" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From hair + splitter.",
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      "form": "hairsplitters",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "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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          "fine",
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          "distinction",
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "hairsplitting"
        },
        {
          "word": "split hairs"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hair-splitter"
        }
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  "word": "hairsplitter"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From hair + splitter.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hairsplitters",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "hairsplitter (plural hairsplitters)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "hairsplitting"
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    {
      "word": "split hairs"
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        "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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  "synonyms": [
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      "word": "hair-splitter"
    }
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  "word": "hairsplitter"
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