prickly

Adjective
  1. Very irritable (synset 301138920)
    "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
    similar to: ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
    same as: bristly, splenetic, waspish
  2. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. (synset 300146351)
    "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
    similar to: armed - (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns
    same as: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny

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