nettle

🇺🇸 /ˈnetl/ 🇬🇧 /ˈnetl/
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noun
R

A plant with leaves that have little stingers on them, which can make you feel a stinging pain if you touch them.

The nettles had spread and now covered half the garden, so I had to wear gloves to pull them out.

蔦が広がって庭の半分を覆っていたので、手套をつけて抜く必要がありました。

verb
R

To bother or annoy someone slightly.

My remarks clearly nettled her, as she seemed quite upset afterwards.

私の発言は明らかに彼女を怒らせてしまい、その後彼女はかなり不機嫌そうでした。

translation

n. スギノタデ
v. イラッとさせる

語形変化

3rd Present nettles
Past nettled
Perfect nettled
Progressive nettling
Plural nettles