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• nut pick

名詞

nutpick (複数形 nutpicks)

1. (US) A sharp tool used for digging the edible portion out of a nut.

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• nutcracker

語源 2

Blend of nut +‎ nitpick. Coined by a commenter in 2006 and popularized by Kevin Drum.^[1]

動詞

nutpick (三人称単数 現在形 nutpicks, 現在分詞 nutpicking, 過去形および過去分詞形 nutpicked)

1. (Internet) To cherry-pick poor representatives of a viewpoint (i.e., from internet comments) in order to disparage it.
   • 2014 January 29, mistermix, “Notes from Last Night’s Putsch”, in Balloon Juice‎^[2]:

     Nutpicking has gotten easy over the last few years–just check out the Twitter feeds of Teanderthal Members of Congress.

   • [2018 April 23, Nate Silver, Twitter‎^[3]:

     The blog-era term "nutpicking", which refers to cherry-picking the worst or nuttiest comments to disparage a larger group ("liberals", "conservatives", "feminists") by falsely implying the views are widely-held within the group, needs to be revived. It's very common on Twitter.]

   • 2019 March 18, David French, “There’s a Fake Outrage Machine on the Right, Also”, in National Review‎^[4]:

     If there’s a right-wing analog to the Media Matters machine, it often comes in the ongoing effort to “nutpick” radical professors, highlight their most ridiculous (かつ often years-old) comments, and try to drive them out of their jobs.

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