History
History
Show in Sentence
 Show Synonyms 

1) a wild bush with long prickly stems producing blackberries (bramble)

2) a wild plant with prickly leaves and yellow, white or purple flowers (thistle)

Synonyms
UK
US
Meaning:
bushy

covered with bushes

shaggy, unkempt

cantankerous

bed-tempered; quarrelsome

difficult, crabby

crusty

having a crust

irritable, often due to old age

irritable

easily annoyed or made angry

bad-tempered, crabby

oversensitive

(of a person) far too sensitive

bad-tempered, crabby

sharp

with a fine cutting edge and able to divide a solid easily; well-defined; clear; quickly aware of things

knifelike, cutting

PRICKLY as in Wiktionary
PRICKLY as in Wikipedia