(~s, nettling, ~d)
1.
Nettles are wild plants which have leaves covered with fine hairs that sting you when you touch them.
The ~s stung their legs.
N-COUNT
2.
If you are ~d by something, you are annoyed or offended by it.
He was ~d by her manner...
It was the suggestion that he might alter course to win an election that really ~d him.
VERB: be V-ed, V n