Prickliness

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prick·ly (pr

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adj. prick·li·er, prick·li·est

1. Having prickles.

2. Prickling or tingling or smarting: a prickly sensation in my foot.

a. Causing trouble or vexation; thorny: a prickly situation.

b. Bristling or irritable: "In consequence, he became rebarbative, prickly, spiteful" (Robert Craft).

prickli·ness n.

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Noun

prickliness - the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines

bristliness, spininess, thorniness

raggedness, roughness - a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven

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