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nettle-rashed en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Affected by or covered with nettle-rash.
    • Therefore Gilbert felt no particular qualm when he received the note summoning him to the meeting in camera. Rather he poured a little ointment on his prickly, nettle-rashed vanity, and concluded they were going to consult him, privately, upon some matter connected with the school […] 1985, D. H. Lawrence, edited by Lindeth Vasey, Mr Noon, New York: Viking, page 67:
    • His hands were red-raw, his body nettle-rashed, and his leg throbbed. 1952, Frank Clune, Somewhere in New Guinea, Philosophical Library, page 39: