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Disgust vs Nettle - What's the difference?

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As verbs the difference between disgust and nettle

is that disgust is to cause an intense dislike for something while nettle is of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.

As nouns the difference between disgust and nettle

is that disgust is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty while nettle is any plant, the foliage of which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.

disgust

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cause an intense dislike for something.
  • It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
  • It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

    Noun

    (wikipedia disgust) (-)
  • An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
  • With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.

    nettle

    English

    (wikipedia nettle) (Urtica)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any plant, the foliage of which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.
  • # Especially, most species of herb genus Urtica , the stinging nettles:
  • ## Most, but not all, subspecies of ,
  • ## ;
  • # Wood nettle ();
  • # (vern)s and (spurge nettle)s of genus :
  • ## , (bull nettle), (spurge nettle),
  • ## , (Texas bull nettle),
  • ## , (bull nettle),
  • ## (vern) or (tree nettle)s:
  • ### Various species of the genus ,
  • ### ,
  • ### ;
  • # (rock nettle) ();
  • # (small-leaved nettle) ().
  • Certain plants that have spines or prickles:
  • # (ball nettle) ();
  • # , (bull nettle), (silver-leaf nettle), (white horse-nettle);
  • # , (western horse-nettle), (robust horse-nettle);
  • # , (horse-nettle);
  • # Celtis .
  • Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the same family (Lamiaceae as the stinging nettles, that resemble the species of Urtica :
  • # (dead nettle), (dumb nettle) (Lamium ), particularly , (white nettle);
  • # (false nettle) ();
  • # (flame nettle) or (painted nettle) (Coleus );
  • # (hedge nettle) (Stachys );
  • # (hemp nettle) ();
  • # (horse nettle)s:
  • ## ,
  • ## , (ball-nettle), (Carolina horse-nettle),
  • ## , (bull nettle), (silver-leaf nettle), (white horse-nettle);
  • # (nilgiri nettle), (Himalayan giant nettle) ().
  • Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.
  • Derived terms

    * grasp the nettle * nettle rash * nettlelike * nettlesome * nettly

    Verb

    (nettl) (transitive)
  • (literally) Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.
  • The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.
  • (figuratively) To pique, irritate, vex or provoke someone.
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