nettle
English
Etymology
From Middle English netle, netel, from Old English netle, netele, netel, from Proto-West Germanic *natilu (cognate with Old Saxon netila, Middle Dutch netele (modern Dutch netel), German Nessel, Middle Danish nædlæ (“nettle”)), a diminutive of Proto-Germanic *natǭ (of unknown origin, perhaps from the same source as net).
Pronunciation
Noun
nettle (plural nettles)
- Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
- Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles:
- Most, but not all, subspecies of Urtica dioica (common nettle),
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- Wood nettle (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.);
- Bull nettles and spurge nettles of genus Cnidoscolus:
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- Nettle trees or tree nettles:
- Various species of the genus Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.:
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- rock nettle (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.);
- small-leaved nettle (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.).
- Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica, the stinging nettles:
- Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
- ball nettle (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.);
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- Celtis (hackberry).
- Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:
- dead nettle, dumb nettle (Lamium), particularly Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., white nettle;
- false nettle (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., family Urticaceae);
- flame nettle or painted nettle (Coleus);
- hedge nettle (Stachys);
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- Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
stinging herb of genus Urtica
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deadnettle — see deadnettle
anything which causes such a rash
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Verb
nettle (third-person singular simple present nettles, present participle nettling, simple past and past participle nettled)
- (transitive) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.
- The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- […] I am whipp’d and scourged with rods,
Nettled and stung with pismires, when I hear
Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.
- (transitive, figuratively) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.
- 1679, Aphra Behn, The Feign’d Curtizans, London: Jacob Tonson, Act V, Scene 1, p. ,[1]
- His Mistress: whose Mistress, what Mistress; s’life how that little word has nettled me!
- 1741, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded, London: C. Rivington & J. Osborn, 2nd edition, Volume I, Letter 31, p. 212,[2]
- I saw Mr. Williams was a little nettled at my Impatience […]
- 1985, United States. Foreign Broadcast Information Service, Daily Report: People's Republic of China (issues 180-189, page 42)
- Liu, whose political writings had nettled the Taiwanese authorities, was assassinated on October 15, last year, in Daly City […]
- 1679, Aphra Behn, The Feign’d Curtizans, London: Jacob Tonson, Act V, Scene 1, p. ,[1]
Translations
of the nettle plant etc., to sting causing a rash
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to pique, irritate, vex or provoke someone
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