pricky
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
pricky (comparative prickier, superlative prickiest)
- Stiff and sharp; prickly.
- 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XIX.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, published 1635, →OCLC:
- Prickie moreover it [Soap-wort] is like a thorne.
References[edit]
- “pricky”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.