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Webster 1913 Edition
Hairsplitter
Hair′splitˊter
(-splĭtˊtẽr)
, Noun.
One who makes excessively fine or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles.
“The caviling hairsplitter.” De Quincey.
Definition 2024
hairsplitter
hairsplitter
See also: hair-splitter
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Noun
hairsplitter (plural hairsplitters)
- A person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).