nettly
/ˈnɛt(ə)li/adjective
1Of a place: overgrown with nettles.
- Attested earliest in place names..
2Suggestive of nettles or their flavour, etc. rare.
3Of a person: irritable. Now rare.
Origin
Middle English. From nettle + -y.
- green dressing
- green drought
- Greenean
- green earth
- green ebony
- green economy
- Greene, Graham
- Greeneian
- Greene-ian
- Greeneland
- green electricity
- Greene, Nathanael
- green energy
- Greener
- greenery
- greenery-yallery
- greeneye
- green-eyed
- green fairy
- green fat
- green fee
- greenfeed
- greenfield
- greenfinch
- green-fingered