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prick·ly

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–adjective, -li·er, -li·est.

1.	full of or armed with prickles.

2.	full of troublesome points: a prickly problem.

3.	prickling; smarting: a prickly sensation.

[Origin: 1570–80; prickle + -y¹

]

—Related forms

prick·li·ness, noun

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	Synonym Collection v1.1	Cite This Source
Main Entry:	prickly
Part of Speech:	adjective
Synonyms:	briery, coarse, complicated, echinate, irritable, scratchy, sharp, spiny, thorny, touchy, troublesome, acanthoid, acanthous, brambly, burry, horrent, muricate, spined, spinous
Source:	Synonym Collection v1.1 Copyright © 2008 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.

	Synonym Collection v1.1	Cite This Source
Main Entry:	prickly
Part of Speech:	noun
Synonyms:	bramble, burr, briar
Source:	Synonym Collection v1.1 Copyright © 2008 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.

	Roget's II: The New Thesaurus	Cite This Source
Main Entry:	thorny
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	Full of sharp needlelike protuberances.
Synonyms:	briery, echinate, pricky, spiny, thistly
Source:	Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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pear, prickly: see cactus.

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