nettle
ne tuhl
- n any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)
- v sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation
- v cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
- The nettle's little stinger is one of nature's meanest masterpieces.
- A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bound by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didnt know enough to stay in the city.
- Which leaves one wondering just how serious a Bush administration in the heat of its war on terrorism is about grasping the nettle of Arab democracy.