κερχνώ

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ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware

Source

Greek Monolingual

κερχνῶ, -όω (Α) κέρχνος (II)]
(κατά τον Ησύχ.) «κερχνῶσαι
καταστίξαι καὶ οἷον τραχῡναι».