smartle

present singular third person smartles · participle present smartling · participle past smartled · past smartled

1. intransitiveTo hurt or sting with pain, often continually or repeatedly.

   Smartling in its nudity, will not save the production.

   1954, Paul Henry Lang, Articles, Reviews, Etc, page 13

   2 more examples

   There was a little blister on Billy's knee. He looked at it with deep self-pity. "It smartles!" he said pitifully.

   1902, Brown Linnet, The Kidnapping of Ettie and Other Tales, page 287

   "I am wounded, too," he added, as he now felt for the first time, the smartling pain of the gash in his side.

   1968, Graham's Magazine, volume 8, page 206