LekhoriLekhoriEasily irritated.
He has a prickly personality. He doesn't get along with people because he is easily set off.
Difficult; complicated; hairy or thorny.
It was a prickly situation.
In a prickly manner.
Striding across stage in his bright white jacket, his voice soaring and cracking – like Charlie Parker’s – he was nervous but prickly eloquent, caustic yet encouraging.
Something that gives a pricking sensation; a sharp object.
Below, way out on the flat, Blue had seen a light green that could be graze but up here was nothing 'cept all kinds of prickly bushes, and too many of them. Ground-spreading pricklies that reached out to jump at a horse's belly […]
From prickle + -y.
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