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nitters

nitters is the plural of nitter.

Meaning of nitter

Noun

nitter (plural nitters)

  1. (archaic) A louse that deposits nits on horses.
    • [The bots] were hatched, into (what is called in the country) a horse-bee or nitter.1809, Medical Repository of Original Essays and Intelligence Relative to Physic, Surgery, Chemistry, and Natural History, volume 12, page 124
    Synonyms:
    horse-bee

Questions about nitters

What is nitters the plural of?
Nitters is the plural of nitter.

Words near nitters in the dictionary

  1. Nittany apple
  2. nittas
  3. nitted
  4. Nittedal
  5. nitter
  6. nitters
  7. Nitti
  8. nittie
  9. nittier
  10. nitties
  11. nittiest

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