Nit in Poker

Being a Nit is Bad for Your Health poker nit Nit: A poker player who uses an extremely tight strategy, who plays very few hands, and who aims to only get involved in big pots with monster poker chip drawing in this weeks poker vlog we play $2-$5 again at Parx Casino working on our cash game game we review hands and try new strategy of raising

poker with 2 cards What is the origin of the term nit ? Googling this has not provided an answer First came across it online