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prickly Adjective [-lier, -liest] 1. having prickles 2. tingling or stinging: he had a prickly feeling down his back 3. touchy or irritable: Canadians are notoriously prickly about being taken for Americans
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prickly adjective 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 adjective 4. difficult, complicated, tricky, trying, involved, intricate, troublesome, thorny, knotty, ticklish |
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Yea, my fish- bones, shells, and prickly leaves shall--tickle the noses of dissemblers! It begun then--at the time of the trouble with her lover," nodded Old Tom; "and it seems as if she'd been feedin' on wormwood an' thistles ever since--she's that bitter an' prickly ter deal with. In reply to her mother's command and entreaty that she would behave more decorously, little Pearl paused gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock which grew beside the tomb. |
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