Thorny

//ˈθɔɹni//

Definitions

1
Having thorns or spines.
Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.
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prickly spiny
2
Troublesome or vexatious.
thorny issues
3
Aloof and irritable.
Come, Jo, don't be thorny. After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting, and ought to get it.

Word Origin

From Middle English thorny, þorny, þorni, from Old English þorniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þornag. By surface analysis, thorn + -y.

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//ˈθɔɹni//

1
Having thorns or spines.
Tara flour is one of two products made from the seed pods of a thorny shrub native to Peru. One of those, tara gum, has been used safely for years as a thickening agent or stabilizer in human foods.
Similar
prickly spiny
2
Troublesome or vexatious.
thorny issues
3
Aloof and irritable.
Come, Jo, don't be thorny. After studying himself to a skeleton all the week, a fellow deserves petting, and ought to get it.

Word Origin

From Middle English thorny, þorny, þorni, from Old English þorniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þornag. By surface analysis, thorn + -y.

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