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adj. Having prickles.

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

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

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

adj. Covered with sharp points.

adj. Easily irritated.

adj. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles.

Full of sharp points or prickles; armed with prickles: as, a prickly shrub.

Pricking or stinging; noting the sensation of being pricked or stung.

adj. very irritable

adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

"Oh, I know it now; it is what they call the prickly pear in the West Indies."

ill-natured    armed   

smooth   

prickly glass-wort    prickly cat    prickly heat    prickly comfrey   

pricklier    prickliest   

pricky    aculeate    aciculate    spiny    thorny    thistly    echinate    echinated    echinulate    burry   

Stickley    quickly    sickly    slickly    thickly   

thorny    spiny    spiky    scrubby    leafless    wither    leafy    brittle    impenetrable    sparse