prickly
adjective
[ ˈprɪkli ]
• covered in prickles.
• "masses of prickly brambles"
Similar:
spiky,
spiked,
thorny,
barbed,
spiny,
pronged,
bristled,
bristly,
briary,
brambly,
burry,
rough,
scratchy,
sharp,
spiculate,
spicular,
aculeate,
barbellate,
spinose,
spinous,
muricate,
setaceous,
• (of a person) ready to take offence.
• "she came across as prickly and generally difficult"
Similar:
irritable,
irascible,
peevish,
fractious,
fretful,
cross,
crabbed,
crabby,
crotchety,
cantankerous,
curmudgeonly,
disagreeable,
miserable,
morose,
petulant,
pettish,
peppery,
on edge,
edgy,
impatient,
complaining,
querulous,
bitter,
moody,
huffy,
grumpy,
scratchy,
ill-tempered,
bad-tempered,
ill-natured,
ill-humoured,
sullen,
surly,
sulky,
sour,
churlish,
touchy,
testy,
tetchy,
grouchy,
snappish,
waspish,
crusty,
bilious,
liverish,
dyspeptic,
splenetic,
choleric,
snappy,
chippy,
cranky,
narky,
ratty,
eggy,
stroppy,
shirty,
whingy,
whingeing,
peckish,
soreheaded,
snaky,
miffy,
waxy,
