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prickly

[prik-lee]

adjective

pricklier, prickliest 
  1. full of or armed with prickles.

  2. full of troublesome points.

    a prickly problem.

  3. prickling; smarting.

    a prickly sensation.



prickly

/ ˈɪɪ /

adjective

  1. having or covered with prickles

  2. stinging or tingling

  3. bad-tempered or irritable

  4. full of difficulties; knotty

    a prickly problem

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Other 51Թ Forms

  • prickliness noun
  • unprickly adjective
  • ˈԱ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of prickly1

First recorded in 1570–80; prickle + -y 1
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The record is already scorching hot, with songs like “Cactus” making a subtle, prickly nod to her past relationship with Mexican crooner Christian Nodal, who famously tattooed her eyes on his chest.

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A spate of arrests, diplomatic expulsions and public humiliations has plunged relations between war-torn Ukraine and its prickly Nato neighbour Hungary to a new low.

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Alternating between angry and exhausted, she bristles at acclimating to the domesticity that her prickly neighbor wives treat like a club handshake.

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Olson plays these moments of realization with a wide-eyed innocence, allowing DJ’s inner child to temporarily crack the prickly walls she’s built to protect herself from her mother’s constant failure to nurture and support her.

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The prickly comedy “Magic Farm” is a trip to rural Argentina that feels like flipping through a carousel of ironic souvenir postcards.

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