Definition of "nettling" [net•tling]

• Present participle of nettle. (verb)

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• "And writer Raymond S. Kraft weighs in with the kind of nettling facts that make Leftists like Obama so incurably nauseated: "In little more than two centuries, despite its faults,"
• "His last work Nettles published in 1930 just eleven days after his death were a series of bitter, “nettling” but often amusing attacks on the moral climate of England."
• "Sometimes, especially if you were tired, his nettling questions could become irksome."