| 单词 | prickly |
| 释义 | prickly (once / 2574 pages) adj Prickly things are sharp and spiky, while prickly people are quick to be offended or irritated. Ouch! A prickly tag in the collar of your new shirt can make you uncomfortable all day, and so can a prickly co-worker whose feelings seem to get hurt by everything you say. Porcupines and cactuses are prickly, and so is the next-door neighbor who is constantly irritated with you. The first thing that was described as prickly, in the 1570s, was a holly leaf. WORD FAMILYprickly: pricklier, prickliest, prickliness+/prickle: prickled, prickles, prickling, prickly/prickling: pricklings USAGE EXAMPLESBut it was their palpably upbeat — and sometimes prickly — chemistry that became their trademark. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Imagine a version of “Groundhog Day” with Bill Murray’s prickly frustration replaced by Driver’s soulful reserve, and you’re halfway there. Los Angeles Times(Dec 27, 2016) That’s just the starting point for 90 minutes of virtuosic puzzle-solving, prickly friendship and the spectacular return of ghosts from one character’s past. Seattle Times(Dec 27, 2016) 1adj very irritable he became prickly and spiteful Syn bristly, splenetic, waspish ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition 2adj having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. Syn barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny armed (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns |
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