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Summary

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hairsplitting:
- faire le difficile; chicane; ergoterie; chicanerie
Wiktionary:
- hair-splitting → enculage de mouches
- hair-splitting → chicanerie, coupage de cheveux en quatre, pinaillage, enculage de mouches

English

Detailed Translations for hair-splitting from English to French

hairsplitting:

hairsplitting [the ~] nom

the hairsplitting (acting difficult; quibbling)
le faire le difficile
- faire le difficile [le ~] nom
the hairsplitting (niggling; nitpicking)
la chicane; l'ergoterie
- chicane [la ~] nom
- ergoterie [la ~] nom
the hairsplitting (nitpicking)
la chicane
- chicane [la ~] nom
the hairsplitting (quibbling over words)
la chicanerie; l'ergoterie
- chicanerie [la ~] nom
- ergoterie [la ~] nom

Translation Matrix for hairsplitting:

Noun	Related Translations	Other Translations
chicane	hairsplitting; niggling; nitpicking	arguing; bickering; cavilling; fault-finding; pettifoggery; quarreling; quibble; quibbling; splitting hairs; squabbling; wrangling
chicanerie	hairsplitting; quibbling over words
ergoterie	hairsplitting; niggling; nitpicking; quibbling over words	cavilling; fault-finding
faire le difficile	acting difficult; hairsplitting; quibbling
-	word-splitting
Adjective	Related Translations	Other Translations
-	finespun

Synonyms for "hairsplitting":

finespun; precise
word-splitting; differentiation; distinction

Related Definitions for "hairsplitting":

developed in excessively fine detail¹
making too fine distinctions of little importance¹
- they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously¹

Wiktionary Translations for hair-splitting:

hair-splitting

noun

the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent
- hair-splitting → enculage de mouches

hair-splitting

noun

(vulgaire) (figuré) péjoratif|fr arguties pour des vétilles, argumentation oiseuse, absconse et parfois pédante, sur des détails.
- enculage de mouches → nit-picking; squibbling; hair-splitting

Cross Translation:

From	To	Via
• hair-splitting	→ chicanerie; coupage de cheveux en quatre; pinaillage; enculage de mouches	↔ Haarspalterei — übertriebene Kleinlichkeit

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