adj. 25B6; adjective
a prickly hedgehog : SPIKY, spiked, thorny, barbed, spiny; briary, brambly; rough, scratchy; technical spiculate, spicular, aculeate, spinose.
my skin feels prickly : TINGLY, tingling, prickling.
a prickly character. : See irritable .
the prickly question of the refugees : PROBLEMATIC, awkward, ticklish, tricky, delicate, sensitive, difficult, knotty, thorny, irksome, tough, troublesome, bothersome, vexatious.