Dictionary Entry
prickly
prickly is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 20 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1adjective
Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
- 2adjective
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
"a horse with a short bristly mane"
"bristly shrubs"
- 3adjective
very irritable
"bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"
"he became prickly and spiteful"
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