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Defenition of the word prickly

    • Defenition of the word prickly

      • having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"
      • very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
      • having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
      • having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
      • very irritable

    Synonyms for the word prickly

      • aculeate
      • barbed
      • barbellate
      • briary
      • briery
      • bristled
      • bristly
      • burred
      • burry
      • itchy
      • scratchy
      • spiky
      • spiny
      • splenetic
      • stinging
      • thorny
      • tickly
      • tingling
      • touchy
      • waspish

    Similar words in the prickly

      • armed
      • ill-natured
      • prickly

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