prickly

/pɹˈɪkli/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

adjective

1. very irritable
   “bristly exchanges between the White House and the press”
2. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
   “a horse with a short bristly mane”

Synonyms for prickly

• bristly
• splenetic
• waspish
• ill-natured
• barbed
• barbellate
• briary
• briery
• bristled
• burred
• burry
• setose
• setaceous
• spiny
• thorny
• armed

Words that rhyme with prickly

• thickly
• quickly
• sickly
• slickly
• bickley
• brickley
• mickley
• nicley
• siklie
• stickley
• wickley