Nettler
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Nettler is a noun meaning One who nettles; a vexatious or provoking individual or organization.
Meaning
One who nettles; a vexatious or provoking individual or organization.
More Meanings
- An irritation or provocation.
- On who applies nettles to another person (as a prank, punishment, or as part of a ritual).
- A plant or animal that has poisonous stinging hairs, spikes or tendrils.
Example Sentences
Nettled noses can be no delight to the nettled and ought to be no delight to the nettlers.
But theſe are the Nettlers, theſe are the babbing Bookes that tell, though not halfe your fellows feats.
That thrust you gave me, Tims, has prov'd a nettler— Your stab turns out, what I have been, — a Settler!
It will hardly surprise you to learn that frustrations about boy friends and dating plans are common teen-age nettlers.
Word Forms
- nettlers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include irritant, netter, nestler, tangler, needler, nutpicker.
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