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Definition of Prickly
1. Adjective. Very irritable. "Witty and waspish about his colleagues"
2. Adjective. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. "Setaceous whiskers"
Similar to: Armed
Derivative terms: Barbel, Briar, Bristle, Bristliness, Burr, Prickle, Prickliness, Seta, Spininess, Thorn, Thorniness
Definition of Prickly
1. a. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
Definition of Prickly
1. Adjective. Covered with sharp points. ¹
2. Adjective. Easily irritated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prickly
1. having many sharp points [adj -LIER, -LIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prickly
Literary usage of Prickly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"Distribution of prickly lettuce in the United States.—Among the weeds of recent
introduction in America the prickly lettuce, ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"The prickly-pear is most grateful for cultivation, responding with fifty tons to
tin.- acre Vindicating the prickly-Pear By DAVID GRIFFITHS Bureau of Plant ..."
3. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The Negro in the South chews a piece of prickly ash bark to cure the toothache.
... The prickly ash in its best estate looks like a well-grown apple tree, ..."
4. Tropical Diseases: A Manual of the Diseases of Warm Climates by Patrick Manson (1903)
"Durham regards prickly heat as an infective disease produced by a minute and very
active ... Nearly every European in the tropics suffers from prickly heat, ..."
5. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by Charles Anderson Dana (1875)
"It is a shrub 5 to 10 ft. high, with prickly stems and compound leaves having four
... The small, greenish, axillary flowers are dioecious, and prickly Ash ..."
6. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"prickly Ash, any of several prickly shrubs of the United States of the rue family
... prickly pears were in cultivation among the natives when America was ..."
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