† nitticaladj.
Obsolete. rare.
Infested with nits.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > with insects > with lice or nits
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1608 T. Middleton Your Fiue Gallants sig. H2 A filthy-slymy-lousie-nitticall broker.
a1641 A. Munday et al. Sir Thomas More (1990) i. 136 But if I notch not that rogue Tom barber that makes me look thus like a Brownist, hang me. I'll be worse to the nittical knave than ten tooth drawings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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