Nettler
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 One who nettles; a vexatious or provoking individual or organization.
"But theſe are the Nettlers, theſe are the babbing Bookes that tell, though not halfe your fellows feats."
- 2 An irritation or provocation.
"That thrust you gave me, Tims, has prov'd a nettler— Your stab turns out, what I have been, — a Settler!"
- 3 On who applies nettles to another person (as a prank, punishment, or as part of a ritual).
"So far as we know, neither Walsingham nor Burghley ever recongnized their portraits as Cosmosophos and Piloplutos in Lodge's Catharos...A Nettle for Nice Noses. but it is safe to say that neither the Secretary nor the Lord Treasurer allowed their noses to be nettled with impunity if the nettler ever came within their proper reach."
- 4 A plant or animal that has poisonous stinging hairs, spikes or tendrils.
"The first description of the latter cnidae in that species was made by Uchida in 1929 (Uchida, 1929). Both animals are rather heavy nettlers for human divers and bathers."
Example
More examples"But theſe are the Nettlers, theſe are the babbing Bookes that tell, though not halfe your fellows feats."
Etymology
From nettle + -er.
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