gnat-strainer

English

Etymology

gnat +‎ strainer, referring to a Bible verse, Matthew xxiii. 24.

Noun

gnat-strainer (plural gnat-strainers)

  1. A person who is ostentatiously punctilious about trifles.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for gnat-strainer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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