1. nettle - Noun
2. nettle - Verb
A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.
To fret or sting; to irritate or vex; to cause to experience sensations of displeasure or uneasiness not amounting to violent anger.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape. Thornton Wilder
Better be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo. Ralph Waldo Emerson
High poet, pride of the English squires, I would be just a nettle in your garden. Eustache Deschamps
The sky's stone does not strike the nettle. Hungarian Proverb
The real nettle will sting early. Latin Proverb
Falsehood is a nettle that stings those who meddle with it. American Proverb