Crossword-Solution: PRICKLY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prickly | a. | Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “PRICKLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| __ pear: cactus | 1 answer |
| echinate | 2 answers |
| brambly | 2 answers |
| Like a hedgehog | 3 answers |
| Tingling | 3 answers |
| cultrate | 3 answers |
| ACULEATE | 3 answers |
| Spiny ___ | 8 answers |
| Scratchy | 10 answers |
| A TINGLING FEELING OF EXCITEMENT | 10 answers |
| Thorny | 11 answers |
| Type of Pear | 13 answers |
| Pear | 15 answers |
| Stinging | 18 answers |
| Itchy | 23 answers |
| Barbed | 26 answers |
| in a bad mood | 31 answers |
| Ash | 35 answers |
| Pointed | 37 answers |
| Irritable | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AMCEZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PRICKLY (5)
Dimmesdale, in a quiet way, as if he had been discussing the point within himself, “Whether capable of good, I know not.” The child probably overheard their voices, for, looking up to the window with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence, she threw one of the prickly burrs at the Rev.
The first (and the worst!) thing that confronted Thea was a suit of clean, prickly red flannel, fresh from the wash.
The picture really doesn't do it justice--those things that look like feather dusters are maple trees, and the prickly ones that border the drive are murmuring pines and hemlocks.
Various kinds of isis, clusters of pure tuft-coral, prickly fungi, and anemones formed a brilliant garden of flowers, enamelled with porphitæ, decked with their collarettes of blue tentacles, sea-stars studding the sandy bottom, together with asterophytons like fine lace embroidered by the hands of naïads, whose festoons were waved by the gentle undulations caused by our walk.
Where the plump barley-grain so oft we sowed, There but wild oats and barren darnel spring; For tender violet and narcissus bright Thistle and prickly thorn uprear their heads.
Quotes with PRICKLY (3)
Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
I don’t understand how I could have believed you were a warm, affectionate, and tenderhearted person! You’re obviously as prickly as a porcupine and any man who comes close to you will end up with a face full of quills!
A muffled voice startled them both. her?" They pulled away. In the ballroom windows, noses and hands pressed against the glass, were the girls. They stood among the prickly rosebushes, beaming wicked little grins. Delphinium and Eve whispered and giggled to each other; Bramble wore a magnificent grin on her face and a spark of light in her yellow-green eyes. Another figure stood among them. This one had his arms folded across his chest, stiff and firm and formal...... Yet he did not look displeased.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1994–2004).