Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗The egg of a louse. · A young louse. · A head louse regardless of its age. · A fool, a nitwit.
To have the modus vivendi of a drug addict, to live the life of a nitty.
From Middle English nite, from Old English hnitu, from Proto-Germanic *hnits (compare Dutch neet, German Nisse, Norwegian nit), from Proto-Indo-European *-níd- (compare Scottish Gaelic sneadh, Lithuanian gli̇̀nda, Polish gnida, Albanian thëri, Ancient Greek κονίς (konís)).
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