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Here is Your Word for Today. April 29, 2008 |
Hai! Monday, 28th April 2008 : Today's Word is ...
Pronunciation : nétt'l Past and past participle : nettled Present participle : nettling 3rd person present singular : nettles 1. a wild plant with serrated-edged leaves covered with fine hairs or spines that sting when touched. Native to: found worldwide. Genus Urtica. 2. a wild plant with serrated leaves like a stinging nettle, but without the stinging hairs, especially a dead nettle. Native to: northern temperate regions. Genus Lamium. 3. to irritate or annoy somebody ( informal ) 4. to sting somebody with a nettle leaf NOTE : The young leaves of the stinging nettle Urtica dioica can be cooked as a vegetable and used to make nettle beer. The common name nettle is taken from the Anglo-Saxon word noedl meaning needle. Old English netele - Indo-European - to tie aggravate, annoy, bother, bug, chafe, disturb, exasperate, fret, gall2, get, irk, irritate, peeve, provoke appease, mollify, please • Her loud singing of television commercials soon began to nettle him. • The sensation was as bad as that from a nettle, but more like that caused by the Physalia or Portuguese man-of-war. • Then he shot the arrow and fell back and would have died, but he lit on a nettle and sprang up too gaily for a corpse. • nettlelike : Adjective • nettler : Noun • nettly : Adjective
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