Definition of Pricky

1. a. Stiff and sharp; prickly.

Definition of Pricky

1. Adjective. Stiff and sharp; prickly. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pricky

1. prickly [adj PRICKIER, PRICKIEST] - See also: prickly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pricky

prickly pine
prickly poppy
prickly shield fern
prickmadam
prickpunch
prickpunches
pricks
prickshaft
prickshafts
pricksong
pricksongs
prickteaser
prickteasers
prickwood
prickwoods
pricky (current term)
pricy
pride-of-India
pride comes before a fall
pride cometh before a fall
pride goes before a fall
pride goeth before a fall
pride of Bolivia
pride of California
pride of barbados
pride of place
pride oneself
pride wenteth before a fall
prided

Literary usage of Pricky

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"pricky back, o. the stickleback or thornback fish. pricky board, N. When a person's means of living are exhausted ho is at pricky board. ..."

2. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Pertaining to the Dialect of Cumberland by William Dickinson (1880)
"pricky back, o. the stickleback or thornback fish. pricky board, N. When a person's means of living are exhausted he is at pricky buard. ..."

3. A Glossary of Words Used in the Wapentakes of Manley and Corringham by Edward Peacock (1877)
"pricky back, o. the stickleback or thornback fish. pricky board, N. "When a person's means of living are exhausted he is at pricky board. ..."

4. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"pricky-BOARD, a nice point. " When it comes to pricky- board." " He'll no' come up io prieky-board "—that is, will not stand testing. ..."

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