| 释义 |
nettly, a.|ˈnɛtlɪ|
[f. nettle n.1 + -y1. Cf. Du. netelig.]
1. Overgrown with nettles.
c1825Beddoes Poems (1851) 177 The common wild..Dimpled twice with nettly graves. 1870R. Broughton Red as Rose 284 These drenched, nettly charnels.
2. Irritable.
1825Jamieson Suppl. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. 260 Even the most nettly of the human species seem to have some friend or other. 1888G. M. Fenn Man with Shadow II. xxii. 263 I'm not cross, old fellow—only nettly. |