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UK
/pɹˈɪkli/
]
[ US /ˈpɹɪkɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɪkɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
setaceous whiskers
burred fruits
a horse with a short bristly mane
bristly shrubs -
very irritable
witty and waspish about his colleagues
bristly exchanges between the White House and the press
he became prickly and spiteful
How To Use prickly In A Sentence
- In the split second that their gazes locked, that same prickly sensation consumed his mind as if the blood flow to his brain had suddenly been cut off.
- After a while, the prickly feeling of anxiousness dulls and turns blunt.
- At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the in the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and Cattleya orchids. White House florist shows Obamas' relaxed style
- Yorkshire folk turned prickly yesterday after a wild flower charity announced that the common harebell had replaced the white rose as the county's floral emblem.
- We kept driving, past cedar thickets and a pasture studded with blooming prickly pear cactus.
- The reptile's prickly skin repels nearly all of its predators.
- Many of the species native to California, such as the prickly chaparral, rely on fires to propagate.
- The entrepreneur has a prickly relationship with the City. Times, Sunday Times
- The fruit from the prickly pear - a cross between kiwi fruit and a ripe pear - is wonderful.
- Four hundred species of flowers, including Indian paintbrushes, prickly poppies, flowering herbs, and the most compelling blossom of all - the bluebonnet, the Texas state flower.
