All 3 Uses of
nettle
in
Great Expectations
- At such a time I found out for certain that this bleak place overgrown with nettles was the churchyard;†
p. 2.0 *
- A man who had been soaked in water, and smothered in mud, and lamed by stones, and cut by flints, and stung by nettles, and torn by briars; who limped, and shivered, and glared, and growled; and whose teeth chattered in his head as he seized me by the chin.†
p. 2.5
- As I saw him go, picking his way among the nettles, and among the brambles that bound the green mounds, he looked in my young eyes as if he were eluding the hands of the dead people, stretching up cautiously out of their graves, to get a twist upon his ankle and pull him in.†
p. 5.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(nettle as in: beware of nettles near the river) a type of plant with stinging or irritating hairs
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(2)
(nettle as in: my nettlesome little sister) to annoy -- especially with minor irritations