nettly
/ˈnɛt(ə)li/adjective
1Of a place: overgrown with nettles.
- Attested earliest in place names..
2Suggestive of nettles or their flavour, etc. rare.
3Of a person: irritable. Now rare.
Origin
Middle English. From nettle + -y.
- menthene
- menthol
- mentholated
- Mentholatum
- menthol cigarette
- menthone
- menthyl
- menticide
- menticulture
- mentigerous
- mention
- mentionable
- mentioner
- mention in dispatches
- mention someone in one's will
- mento
- mentohyoid
- mentomeckelian
- mento-Meckelian
- menton
- mentoposterior
- mentor
- mentorial
- mentorism
- swing ticket