Spiky
['spaɪkɪ] or ['spaɪki]
Definition
(a.) Like a spike; spikelike.
(a.) Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes.
Editor: Patrick
Examples
- Everything was gone, walled in, with spikes on top of the walls, and one must ignominiously creep between the spiky walls through a labyrinth of life. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had worn all his rust off long ago, but nothing would file his spiky head down. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The spiky points of the fir trees behind the house rose into the sky like the turrets and pinnacles of an abbey. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A spiky green plant filled each pot, and below the verandah ran a wide border of blue hydrangeas edged with more red geraniums. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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