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Nettled   /nˈɛtəld/   Listen
Nettled

adjective
1.
Aroused to impatience or anger.  Synonyms: annoyed, irritated, miffed, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung.  "Feeling nettled from the constant teasing" , "Peeved about being left out" , "Felt really pissed at her snootiness" , "Riled no end by his lies" , "Roiled by the delay"



Nettle

verb
(past & past part. nettled; pres. part. nettling)
1.
Sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation.  Synonym: urticate.
2.
Cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations.  Synonyms: annoy, bother, chafe, devil, get at, get to, gravel, irritate, nark, rag, rile, vex.  "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves"



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"Nettled" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the girl's face as she took in her surroundings rather nettled the old man, and he gave her a snappish answer, then picked himself up, and went ...
— The Guinea Stamp - A Tale of Modern Glasgow • Annie S. Swan

... uncle had expected from me some signs of acquiesence in his splendid estimate of his cub, and was nettled at my silence. After a short interval ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu

... Von Deitz, nettled, in his turn. "The future will nevertheless have Christianity as its basis. It has not perished, but, like ...
— Sanine • Michael Artzibashef

... cock crows lonesomely at morn— Each flag and fern the shrinking stream divides— Uneasy cattle low, and lambs forlorn Creep to their strawy sheds with nettled sides. ...
— Required Poems for Reading and Memorizing - Third and Fourth Grades, Prescribed by State Courses of Study • Anonymous

... nettled by the last remark. "Do you mean to tell me those Blakes are fools enough to eat spring chicken when they could get forty cents apiece for 'em in ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow


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