Definitions for Nettle

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Nettle net·tle

Spelling: [net-l]

IPA: /ˈnɛt l/

Nettle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 47 anagrams from letters in Nettle (eelntt).

Definitions for Nettle

noun

1. any plant of the genus Urtica, covered with stinging hairs. Compare nettle family.
2. any of various allied or similar plants.

Idioms

1. grasp the nettle, Australian. to undertake or tackle an unpleasant task.

verb (used with object)

1. to irritate, annoy, or provoke.
2. to sting as a nettle does.

Origin of Nettle

before 900; Middle English; Old English netele (noun); cognate with Dutch netel, German Nessel, Norwegian netla

Examples for Nettle

Then she bruised every nettle with her bare feet and plaited the green flax.

Or the stings, and minute, colourless blossoming of the nettle?

In the nettle it takes the form of a tiny, seed-like, flattened nut.

She drew a long breath of desperation and grasped the nettle firmly.

"Not a word," said Neeld, grasping the nettle firmly this time.

Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

He had his cattle and his wild pot-herbs, such as the mugwort and the nettle.

And this other, either a nettle or not a nettle; but not nettlaceous.

But the sting certainly does not exhaust the whole philosophy of the nettle.

Mullein and nettle, henbane and wormwood, all are English emigrants.