half-nettled

Updated: July 24, 2026

'I'm none so fond of having strange folk in my house. But then relenting, as he saw her heightened colour, he added, 'Yo're a foreigner, as one may say, and maybe don't know many folk here, and yo've given my wench here flowers out of yo'r own hand; yo may come if yo like. Margaret was half-amused, half-nettled at this answer.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - North and South