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nettlesome adjective. M18.
[from NETTLE noun or verb + -SOME1.]
Easily nettled, irritable. M18.
Causing annoyance, vexatious; awkward, difficult. Chiefly N. Amer. M19.
New York Times Iran's willingness to doublecross the nettlesome Kurds. S. I. Landau The difficulty of distinguishing between lexical units and items in a nomenclature is especially nettlesome in specialized dictionaries.