prickly
adjetivo B2En español: espinoso, espinudo, con espinas, irritable
- Covered with sharp points. · The prickly pear is a cactus; you have to peel it before eating it to remove the spines and the tough skin.
- Easily irritated; thorny. · He has a prickly personality. He doesn't get along with people because he is easily set off.
- Difficult; complicated; hairy or thorny. · It was a prickly situation.
Comparativo pricklier · Superlativo prickliest
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Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, North.
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