smartle

English

Etymology

From smart +‎ -le.

Verb

smartle (third-person singular simple present smartles, present participle smartling, simple past and past participle smartled)

  1. (intransitive) To hurt or sting with pain, often continually or repeatedly.
    • 1902, Brown Linnet, The Kidnapping of Ettie and Other Tales, page 287:
      There was a little blister on Billy's knee. He looked at it with deep self-pity. "It smartles!" he said pitifully.
    • 1954, Paul Henry Lang, Articles, Reviews, Etc, page 13:
      Smartling in its nudity, will not save the production.
    • 1968, Graham's Magazine, volume 8, page 206:
      "I am wounded, too," he added, as he now felt for the first time, the smartling pain of the gash in his side.