prickly

prick·ly  (prkl)

adj. prick·li·er, prick·li·est

1. Having prickles.

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

3.

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

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

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prickli·ness n.

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prickly [ˈprɪklɪ]

adj -lier, -liest

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Botany) having or covered with prickles

2. stinging or tingling

3. bad-tempered or irritable

4. full of difficulties; knotty a prickly problem

prickliness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	prickly - very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" bristly, waspish, splenetic ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
	2.	prickly - 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" barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny, bristly, barbed armed - (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns

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prickly

adjective

1. spiny, barbed, thorny, bristly, brambly, briery The grass was prickly and damp.

2. itchy, sharp, smarting, stinging, crawling, pricking, tingling, scratchy, prickling a hot prickly feeling at the back of her eyes

3. irritable, edgy, grumpy, touchy, bad-tempered, fractious, petulant, stroppy (Brit. slang), cantankerous, tetchy, ratty (Brit. & N.Z. informal), chippy (informal), waspish, shirty (slang, chiefly Brit.), peevish, snappish, liverish, pettish You know how prickly she can be.

4. difficult, complicated, tricky, trying, involved, intricate, troublesome, thorny, knotty, ticklish The issue is likely to prove a prickly one.

Translations

prickly [ˈprɪklɪ]

A. ADJ (pricklier (compar) (prickliest (superl)))

1. (= spiky) → espinoso

2. (fig) [person] → enojadizo
he's rather prickly about that → sobre ese tema es algo quisquilloso

B. CPD prickly heat N (Med) → sarpullido m (causado por exceso de calor)
prickly pear N (= plant) → chumbera f, nopal m (LAm); (= fruit) → higo m chumbo, tuna f (LAm)

prickly [ˈprɪkli] adj

[texture] → piquant(e)

[person] (= touchy) → irritable
prickly heat n → fièvre f miliaire
prickly pear n → figue f de Barbarie

prickly

adj (+er)

plant, fish, animal → stach(e)lig; beard, material → kratzig; sensation → stechend; (= tingling) → prickelnd (also fig)

(fig) person → bissig; woman also → kratzbürstig (inf); as prickly as a hedgehog → stachelig wie ein Igel

(= sore) eyes → schmerzend, gereizt

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prickly:

prickly ash

n (Bot) → Stachelesche f

prickly heat

n → Hitzepocken pl

prickly pear

n (= plant) → Feigenkaktus m; (= fruit) → Kaktusfeige f

prickly [ˈprɪklɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl)))

a. (plant) → spinoso/a; (animal) → pieno/a di spine; (beard) → ispido/a; (wool) → che dà prurito

b. (fig) (person) → permaloso/a; (subject) → spinoso/a

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prickly [ˈprɪklɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl)))

a. (plant) → spinoso/a; (animal) → pieno/a di spine; (beard) → ispido/a; (wool) → che dà prurito

b. (fig) (person) → permaloso/a; (subject) → spinoso/a