prickly , also: pricky

But these students know they need a look and I'm a prickly person.

For the first time, the idea of going home seemed less prickly.

How well have you done so far, prickly little one?

I was really trying my best not to be prickly with her.

But why on earth had she been so prickly if she'd wanted him to stay?

Then, this week, the European issue came up in a prickly way.

The two have had a prickly relationship through the decades, but also much in common.

I am caught between a rock and a prickly place.

"That she has a prickly nature and means to keep it."

They've been prickly as hell with each other, at least until tonight.

The prickly feeling came back, only this time I felt it across my whole body.

Either could make a less prickly partner for the second half of the Bush administration.

"So much the better for us," said the prickly general.

Even away from the pressures of the campaign, he is too quickly prickly.

I think, David, you are being too prickly in responding to it.

But his interference in this issue was making her prickly.

The prickly feeling at the back of my neck returned.

I could feel his eyes on my back and it gave me a prickly feeling, not knowing what he was doing.

They can often be found on prickly pears in the fall.

She rubbed her hand over them, feeling the prickly points.

Why cannot the two of them be a little less prickly?"

The name is often also applied to other prickly plants.

Given the prickly feelings on the issue, the conference is not likely to get very far.

Get over to the other side and keep them out of the prickly pears.

And in a sense that was how they must view her, a difficult prickly maid up from the country.