prickly
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prickly/ˈprɪkli/
▶adjective (pricklier, prickliest)
- 1 covered in or resembling prickles.
■ having or causing a prickling sensation.
- 2 ready to take offence.
■ liable to cause someone to take offence: a prickly subject.
– derivatives
prickliness noun.
prickliness noun.
'prickly' also found in these Oxford entries:
aculeate
- beechmast
- blackberry
- bramble
- briar
- burdock
- burr
- devil's walking stick
- gorse
- holly
- jaggy
- kermes oak
- miliaria
- opuntia
- ox tongue
- piripiri
- prickly heat
- prickly pear
- raspberry
- rose
- speargrass
- teasel
- thistle
- thorn apple
- thornback ray
- tuna
- winterberry
