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Definition of Prickliest
1. prickly [adj] - See also: prickly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prickliest
Literary usage of Prickliest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
"... that she might, if possible, shrink away from the prickliest of tuckers, while
her mother was remonstrating, " Don't, Maggie, my dear—don't look so ugly ..."
2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1895)
"... frowning and twisting her shoulders, that she might if possible shrink away
from the prickliest of tuckers, while her mother was remonstrating, " Don't, ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... shoulder on the youths who buzzed about her like contending bumble-bees on a
Canada thistle, prickliest and most delicate of its tribe. ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1878)
"... he hardly could be more tenderly treated or beloved than before this adventure;
but if the freshest water, the prickliest furze,—if bowls of sour milk ..."
5. The Story of Perugia by Margaret Symonds, Lina Duff Gordon (1898)
"... and in doing so he took for models the sharpest and the prickliest fruits and
leaves of autumn : hazel nuts and tiny fir cones, their points just tipped ..."
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