nettle-rashed

English

Adjective

nettle-rashed (not comparable)

  1. Affected by or covered with nettle-rash.
    • 1952, Frank Clune, Somewhere in New Guinea, Philosophical Library, p. 39,
      His hands were red-raw, his body nettle-rashed, and his leg throbbed.
    • 1985, D. H. Lawrence, Mr Noon, edited by Lindeth Vasey, New York: Viking, p. 67,
      Therefore Gilbert felt no particular qualm when he received the note summoning him to the meeting in camera. Rather he poured a little ointment on his prickly, nettle-rashed vanity, and concluded they were going to consult him, privately, upon some matter connected with the school […]
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