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pricklesome

pricklesome adjective: characterised or marked by prickling.

Adjective

pricklesome (comparative more pricklesome, superlative most pricklesome)

  1. Characterised or marked by prickling.
    • “He'd want a reason, Roric. And whatever reason you gave him, no matter how crafty, he'd take offence at it. Aistan's a good man, but pricklesome when it comes to his family.”2014, Karen Miller, The Falcon Throne

Forms of pricklesome

comparativemore pricklesome
superlativemost pricklesome

Origin of pricklesome

From prickle + -some.

Questions about pricklesome

What does pricklesome mean?
Pricklesome means characterised or marked by prickling.
What part of speech is pricklesome?
Pricklesome is an adjective.

Words near pricklesome in the dictionary

  1. prickleless
  2. pricklelike
  3. prickler
  4. pricklers
  5. prickles
  6. pricklesome
  7. prickless
  8. pricklet
  9. prickletail
  10. pricklets
  11. pricklice

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