prickly Synonyms

thorny spiny bristled bristly burry burred briary splenetic waspish briery setaceous barbellate barbed setose sharp stinging stickleback splenetically splenic stellated startlish spinous spinose spinulose setigerous snappish spicate spiciform spicose spicular spiculate spiked spiky stubbly testy tetchy grouchy anaphylactic nettlesome Berkeley bristlelike ornery short-tempered oversensitive snarky spikelike bad-tempered sagittiform thin-skinned thistly