Photograph by Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914); Famille napolitaine — a Neapolitan mother searching for lice in her son's hair.<unk>  is a term, first used in 1956, that describes the action of giving too much attention to unimportant detail. A person who nitpicks is termed as a nitpicker. The terminology originates from the common act of manually removing nits (the eggs of lice, generally head lice) from another person's hair. As<unk>  inherently requires fastidious attention to detail, the term has become appropriated to describe the practice of meticulously searching for minor, even trivial errors in detail.<unk>  has been used to describe dishonest insurers and bullying employers.
Nitpicking
Bursting
Indoor tanning
Nose-picking
Soiling
Bread loafing
Cocooning 
Quackery