nitty vs pedantic

nitty

adj
  • Foolish, inane. 

  • Of a poker player: playing in an overly cautious and reactive manner. 

  • detailed or specific; fastidious, fussy, nit-picky. 

noun
  • A dope fiend, a druggie. 

pedantic

adj
  • Being showy of one’s knowledge, often in a boring manner. 

  • Being overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning, like a pedant. 

How often have the words nitty and pedantic occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )