nettle-rashed
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
nettle-rashed (not comparable)
- Affected by or covered with nettle-rash.
- 1952, Frank Clune, Somewhere in New Guinea, Philosophical Library, page 39:
- His hands were red-raw, his body nettle-rashed, and his leg throbbed.
- 1985, D. H. Lawrence, edited by Lindeth Vasey, Mr Noon, New York: Viking, page 67:
- Therefore Gilbert felt no particular qualm when he received the note summoning him to the meeting in camera. Rather he poured a little ointment on his prickly, nettle-rashed vanity, and concluded they were going to consult him, privately, upon some matter connected with the school […]