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Easily irritated
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prickly
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "spiny, armed with prickles" (originally of holly leaves), from prickle (n.) + -y (2). Figurative sense of "irritable" first recorded 1862. Prickly heat is from 1736, so called for the sensation; prickly pear is from 1760 (earlier prickle pear , ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prickly \Prick"ly\, Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shru Prickly heat (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the parts affected. It is due ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly , splenetic , waspish ] having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Covered with sharp points. 2 Easily irritated. 3 difficult, hairy, complicated
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES prickly heat prickly pear COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN heat ▪ Q I get prickly heat every time I go in the sun. ▪ A prickly heat pressed against his face; the teakettle made hissing sounds in the night. ▪ Covered ...
Usage examples of prickly.
So inventing by the light of inner consciousness alone, he worked up tiny doses of the grey ambergris into mutton fat, coloured it faintly pink with cochineal insects he caught on the prickly pear hedges, added a little crude borax as a preservative, and so produced a cosmetic that was no better and little worse than the thousand other nostrums of its kind in daily use elsewhere.
Beyond the true garrigue, with its cistus, its broom, its prickly dwarf oak, there lie a series of false garrigues, vegetably speaking worse than the true.
The river was running swift and high and clumps of prickly bush and snag were growing out into the rush of water.
Weasel and I were the first to run forward and clear the grave of the clumps of prickly eryngium, still green goose-foot, young plantains, and wormwood.
Sharina and her escort came around a high wall of prickly euonymus to see a low brick residence set near the wall of the palace compound.
No sign that human life had ever existed out here between the thorny lechuguilla and prickly pear flats encouraged her.
That and the orangish daylight filtering in, revealing a grouping of large prickly plants and an assortment of rocks and heaps of red sand just outside.
He imagined a serpent with eyes all along its back and belly and sides: gigantic, looking down at them from concealment in those prickly tree branches, or invisibly from the orangish sky.
Long, prickly fingers of pyracantha poked through the iron bars, and its fiery thorns grabbed at her clothes as she passed, as if warning her to stay away.
Sebastian Reyne was so prickly and standoffish, he could give lessons to a thistle!
Ascending, the bud of the furze, The broom, and all blue-berried shoots Of stubborn and prickly kind, The juniper flat on its roots, The dwarf rhododaphne, behind She left, and the mountain sheep Far behind, goat, herbage and flower.
The bajada here was all thorn and spine as they wound their way between ocotillo, cholla, prickly pear, barrel, and saguaro cacti.
But the humans had the slidy itch, and the scratchy itch, and the prickly or tingly or titillative paraesthetic fornication.
Mesquite and prickly pear, agave and tall, bloomed-out stalks of sotol gave a sparse shade for the baking land.
The mecheita he was on gave a squalling challenge and charged through prickly brush, raking his leg, catching his jacket, breaking off bits against his trousers on its way to murder.