Word "PRICKLY" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Synonyms:
barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
very irritable
Synonyms:
bristly, splenetic, waspish
Examples:
he became prickly and spiteful

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- pear, invasive cactus (7)
Stack within thickness makes you irritable (7)
Thorny and proven sickly when ovens removed (7)
Word meaning brambly, spiky or thorny; tingling; easily irritated; or, potentially controversial or tricky (7)
Easily irritated The Washington Post Sunday 27 Sep 2020
Thorny, bristly Irish Times Simplex 27 Apr 2018
Difficult taking wrench into work
__ pear: cactus
__ pear: cactus
Irritable
Tingling
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