Prickly

adjective
'prɪkli

Adjective

  • very irritable

    he became prickly and spiteful

    Similar:BristlySpleneticWaspish
  • having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

    Similar:BarbedBarbellateBriaryBrieryBristled

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Similar Words

  • Barbed
  • Barbellate
  • Briary
  • Briery
  • Bristled
  • Bristly
  • Burred
  • Burry
  • Setaceous
  • Setose
  • Spiny
  • Thorny
  • Splenetic
  • Waspish
  • Armed