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

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

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

adjective 2. itchy, sharp, smarting, stinging, crawling, pricking, tingling, scratchy, prickling

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

Translations

prickly [ˈprɪklɪ] adj → espinoso;

(fig) [person] → enojadizo

prickly [ˈprɪklɪ] adj → piquant(e) → épineux/euse (fig) [person] → irritable

prickly [ˈprɪklɪ] prickle adj [plant] → stachelig; [fabric] → kratzig

prickly [ˈprɪklɪ] adj → spinoso/a;

(fig) [person] → permaloso/a