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Meaning of 'prickly' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Prickly [ a.]
- Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.

Meaning of 'prickly' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . prickly [ s]
Meaning (1):
- having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Example in sentence:
  • a horse with a short bristly mane;
  • bristly shrubs;
  • burred fruits;
  • setaceous whiskers
Meaning (2):
- very irritable
Example in sentence:
  • bristly exchanges between the White House and the press;
  • he became prickly and spiteful;
  • witty and waspish about his colleagues

Nearby Words:

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