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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
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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