Prickly
['prɪklɪ]
Definition
(a.) Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
Typist: Murray
Examples
- When she began to extricate herself it was by turning round and round, and so unwinding the prickly switch. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- My ankles were all in a fever before, from walking through that prickly furze, and now you must make 'em worse with these vlankers! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Every one must have heard of cases of albinism, prickly skin, hairy bodies, etc. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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