nettler
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who nettles; a vexatious or provoking individual or organization.
noun
An irritation or provocation.
Example Sentences
- "But theſe are the Nettlers, theſe are the babbing Bookes that tell, though not halfe your fellows feats."
- "The husband is a mildly stuffy blueblood who somewhat nettles his high-style-model wife, but she is a brisk, free-wheeling creature who is a bit of a nettler herself."
- "But for all the archivist energies and pack-rat instincts of its founder, the Church League of America never became much more than a filing system turned noisy, a nettler of liberals, a voice that suggested that the ecumenical forces could not alone own the day."
- "That thrust you gave me, Tims, has prov'd a nettler— Your stab turns out, what I have been, — a Settler!"
- "Let us remember that these spiked nettlers of life are part of our discipline. Life would get nauseating if it were all honey."
- "It will hardly surprise you to learn that frustrations about boy friends and dating plans are common teen-age nettlers."
Etymology
From nettle + -er.