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Meaning of prickly in English
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Classifying Adjective
prickly
Definitions
1.
very irritable
Examples
« bristly exchanges between the White House and the press »
« he became prickly and spiteful »
« witty and waspish about his colleagues »
Synonyms
ill-natured
2.
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Examples
« a horse with a short bristly mane »
« bristly shrubs »
« burred fruits »
« setaceous whiskers »
Synonyms
armed