nettle
🇺🇸
/ˈnetl/
🇬🇧
/ˈnetl/
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。
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。