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prickly
adjective
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Quick reference
Word Facts
- Word length
- 7
- Starts with
- P
- Ends with
- Y
- Contains
- RICKL
- Scrabble score
- 18
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
Meaning
Definitions
adjective
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
“a horse with a short bristly mane”
adjective
very irritable
“bristly exchanges between the White House and the press”
In context
Example Sentences
a horse with a short bristly mane
bristly shrubs
burred fruits
setaceous whiskers
bristly exchanges between the White House and the press
he became prickly and spiteful
witty and waspish about his colleagues
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