nitty

adj

1. (also, archaic, figuratively)Full of nits.

   “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 any man that breathes; If he diſguſt him. / Tucca. I'le know the poor, egregious, nitty Raſcall; and he haue ſuch commendable Qualities, I'le cheriſh him: […]”

   “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 shop with the nittie haires, / Doll, Phillis hath lost both her eares / for coozning.”

   “Sure thy father was ſome botcher, and thy hungry tongue bit off theſe ſhreds of complaints, to patch up the elbows of thy nitty eloquence.”

   “Next night, therefore, these nittie haxters intend with strong hand to breake his glass-window's, or at dead-time of night to pull downe his signe: and so ends their faire quarrel.”

2. (British, slang)Foolish, 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 “at 54, there’s not a lot of core left.””

3. 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 mean to imply that Secretariat isn’t the best 3-year-old American racehorse in history – he is.”

   “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 going to hear all the details of when he was a hustler or every painstaking detail behind every song.”

   ““Yes, there were discussions but then it came down to the nitty stuff that players don’t want to get involved in – sell-on fees and things like that,” said the striker [Jamie Maclaren]. “And I got to a point where I said, ‘look, whatever is the quickest solution that can help me get there’.[”]”

4. (slang)Of a poker player: playing in an overly cautious and reactive manner.

   “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 my right called. This player had about $350 behind.”

   “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 significant portion of their value the moment you drive them off the lot.”

   “These days, even the nittiest regular players use continuation bets. But not every flop calls for a continuation bet from every hand.”

   “"Ladies Night" on Poker Night in America was far from nitty, so naturally the bets continued once the game wrapped up for the night.”

5. (obsolete, rare)Shining; 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 ghastly show affright his face.”

noun

1. (Multicultural-London-English, slang)A 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 the nitty I never needed (wha-wha)”

   “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”

   “And I am whipping off raw, that’s messy / The nitties them call that celly”