"Pricklier" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
Having sharp or pointed points; being rougher or more irritating in nature.
The quality of having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed or irritated; being irritable, touchy, or sensitive; sharp or prickly in nature or character.
Covered or spattered with small, sharp points, as brambles are, and hence feeling like this to the touch.<br><br>Example: "Her skin was pricked by the prickly thistles as she walked through the field."
A small, usually sessile, flat-bodied insect with a hard, chitinous body, segmented with six legs and usually bearing spines or cilia, that lives in damp places, especially in soil or among moss.