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hair-splitter

hair-splitter is the alternative form of hairsplitter.

Meaning of hairsplitter

Noun

hairsplitter (plural hairsplitters)

  1. 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).

Forms of hair-splitter

pluralhair-splitters

Questions about hair-splitter

What is hair-splitter the alternative form of?
Hair-splitter is the alternative form of hairsplitter.

Words near hair-splitter in the dictionary

  1. hair-salt
  2. hair-salts
  3. hair-shirt
  4. hair-shirted
  5. hair-shirts
  6. hair-splitter
  7. hair-splitters
  8. hair-splittery
  9. hair-splitting
  10. hair-splittingly
  11. hair-splittings

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