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nettled, ppl. a.|ˈnɛt(ə)ld|
[f. nettle n.1 or v.]
1. Irritated, angry. (Cf. the vb. 2 b.)
1582Stanyhurst Poems (Arb.) 138 They be fresh forging toe the netled Pallas an armoure. 1585C. Fetherstone tr. Calvin on Acts xxiii. 521 Paul meant..with this excuse to mollifie their nettled minds. 1888Sat. Rev. 20 Oct. 466/2 Her own rather nettled defence..of the hideous rhymes which she affected.
2. Stung by nettles. (Cf. the vb. 1.)
1671H. Crouch Welch Trav. 369 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 343 He sate him down Upon a bed of nettles there..His nettled flesh did smart.
3. Full of nettles. Also in Comb., as well-nettled.
1830Blackw. Mag. XXVIII. 631 Buried in some nettled nook of the kirkyard. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 732/2 He lies in a well-nettled corner of St. George's burying-ground. |