nitty-gritty

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

The core or essence of something; the gist.

Adj

Dealing with something in great depth.

Sinonieme

substance

kernel

gist

core

pith

heart and soul

marrow

essence

meat

🥩

center

centre

heart

❤️

inwardness

nub

sum

grass roots

point

quiddity

crux

burden

nucleus

Vertalings

خُلَاْصَة

cor

❤️

فَحْوَى

لُبّ

centre

صَمِيم

essència

nucli

substància

quid

Kern

Wesentliche

ουσία

جَوْهَر

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˌnɪtiˈɡɹɪti/

Etimologie (Engels)

Of uncertain origin; said to have been first used by black jazz musicians from the United States, the word is perhaps a reduplication of gritty (“resembling grit”) (ultimately from Proto-Germanic *greutą (“grit”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewd-) with alteration of the first syllable.
An urban legend links the origin of the word to the debris remaining in the holds of slave ships after the slaves had been disembarked, but there is no evidence for this. The word is not attested early enough to have been associated with slavery.