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prickly

DEFINITIONS OF: prickly

1

adj very irritable

“he became prickly and spiteful”
Synonyms:
bristly, splenetic, waspish
ill-natured
having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

adj having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Synonyms:
barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny
armed
(used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns
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