Smart vs Nettle - What's the difference?

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Smart is a related term of nettle.

As a proper noun smart

is .

As a noun nettle is

any plant, the foliage of which is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.

As a verb nettle is

(literally) of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting causing a rash in someone.

smart

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) smerten, from (etyl) .

Verb

To hurt or sting.

After being hit with a pitch, the batter exclaimed "Ouch, my arm smarts !"

* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21

He moved convulsively, and as he did so, said, "I'll be quiet, Doctor. Tell them to take off the strait waistcoat. I have had a terrible dream, and it has left me so weak that I cannot move. What's wrong with my face? It feels all swollen, and it smarts dreadfully."

To cause a smart or sting in.

* T. Adams

A goad that smarts the flesh.

To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.

* Alexander Pope

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

* Bible, Proverbs xi. 15

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) smart, smarte, smerte, from (etyl) .

Adjective

(er)

Causing sharp pain; stinging.

* Shakespeare

How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience.

Sharp; keen; poignant.

a smart pain

Exhibiting social ability or cleverness.

* 1811 , Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility , chapter 19

I always preferred the church, and I still do. But that was not smart' enough for my family. They recommended the army. That was a great deal too ' smart for me.

Exhibiting intellectual knowledge, such as that found in books.

(often, in combination) Equipped with intelligent behaviour.

smart''' bomb'', '''''smart car

smart'''card'', '''''smart phone

Good-looking.

a smart outfit

Cleverly shrewd and humorous in a way that may be rude and disrespectful.

He became tired of his daughter's sarcasm and smart remarks''.

* Young

Who, for the poor renown of being smart / Would leave a sting within a brother's heart?

* Addison

a sentence or two, which I thought very smart

Sudden and intense.

* Clarendon

smart skirmishes, in which many fell

* 1860 July 9, Henry David Thoreau, journal entry, from Thoreau's bird-lore'', Francis H. Allen (editor), Houghton Mifflin (Boston, 1910), ''Thoreau on Birds: notes on New England birds from the Journals of Henry David Thoreau , Beacon Press, (Boston, 1993), page 239:

There is a smart shower at 5 P.M., and in the midst of it a hummingbird is busy about the flowers in the garden, unmindful of it, though you would think that each big drop that struck him would be a serious accident.

(US, Southern, dated) Intense in feeling; painful. Used usually with the adverb intensifier right .

He raised his voice, and it hurt her feelings right smart .

That cast on his leg chaffs him right smart .

(archaic) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.

* Dryden

The stars shine smarter .

(archaic) Pretentious; showy; spruce.

a smart gown

(archaic) Brisk; fresh.

a smart breeze

Synonyms

* (exhibiting social ability) bright, capable, sophisticated, witty * (exhibiting intellectual knowledge) cultivated, educated, learned, see also * (good-looking) attractive, chic, stylish, handsome * silly

Antonyms

* (exhibiting social ability) backward, banal, boorish, dull, inept * (exhibiting intellectual knowledge) ignorant, uncultivated, simple * (good-looking) garish, , tacky

Derived terms

* smart aleck * smart as a whip * smart casual * smart off

Etymology 3

From (etyl) smerte, from . More above.

Noun

(en noun)

A sharp, quick, lively pain; a sting.

Mental pain or suffering; grief; affliction.

* Milton

To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart .

* Spenser

Counsel mitigates the greatest smart .

Smart-money.

(slang, dated) A dandy; one who is smart in dress; one who is brisk, vivacious, or clever.

(Fielding)

Anagrams

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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.

Anagrams

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