nettlesome

Adjective

 * 1)  Causing irritation, annoyance, or discomfort; bothersome, irksome.
 * My old car is very nettlesome.
 * 1)  Thorny; difficult to deal with, especially due to being complex or tricky.
 * The task of proving Fermat’s “last” theorem remains nettlesome.
 * Be careful what you say to him; he's a nettlesome fellow.
 * 1) * 1904, Winston Churchill, The Crossing (2003 Kessinger reprint), ISBN 9780766169982, p. 61:
 * It so chanced that on the second day after my arrival a pack-train came along, guided by a nettlesome old man and a strong, black-haired lass of sixteen or thereabouts. The old man . . . had no sooner slipped the packs from the horses than he began to rail at Hans, who stood looking on. "You damned Dutchmen all be Tories, and worse," he cried.
 * 1) * 1904, Winston Churchill, The Crossing (2003 Kessinger reprint), ISBN 9780766169982, p. 61:
 * It so chanced that on the second day after my arrival a pack-train came along, guided by a nettlesome old man and a strong, black-haired lass of sixteen or thereabouts. The old man . . . had no sooner slipped the packs from the horses than he began to rail at Hans, who stood looking on. "You damned Dutchmen all be Tories, and worse," he cried.
 * It so chanced that on the second day after my arrival a pack-train came along, guided by a nettlesome old man and a strong, black-haired lass of sixteen or thereabouts. The old man . . . had no sooner slipped the packs from the horses than he began to rail at Hans, who stood looking on. "You damned Dutchmen all be Tories, and worse," he cried.

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