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Meaning & Definition of Prickly in English

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Prickly

/prɪkli/

adjective

1. Very irritable

  • "Bristly exchanges between the white house and the press"
  • "He became prickly and spiteful"
  • "Witty and waspish about his colleagues"
synonym:
  • bristly,
  • prickly,
  • splenetic,
  • waspish

2. 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"
synonym:
  • barbed,
  • barbellate,
  • briary,
  • briery,
  • bristled,
  • bristly,
  • burred,
  • burry,
  • prickly,
  • setose,
  • setaceous,
  • spiny,
  • thorny