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Significados de prickly en inglés

Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

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Very irritable.

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Uso de prickly en inglés
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However, given the prickly undercurrent, today may not be the best day!
The South African
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Government and business relations between Singapore and Indonesia have historically been prickly.
Reuters
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For a similar reason, the actual prickly pears themselves are attractively coloured.
Science in Arcady
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Any mention of her former colleagues is bound to make her prickly.
The Naked God
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My body is mostly numb, but I'm beginning to feel prickly sensations.
The Menstruating Mall
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So tell me how you'd approach it. Okay, I was feeling prickly.
Ashes and bones: an emma fielding mystery
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Even animals were wary of penetrating the dense morass of prickly bushes.
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
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The same treatment may be used in nettle rash or prickly heat.
The Mother and Her Child
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Fish were reduced to stealthy shadows slithering among the prickly coral branches.
The Neutronium Alchemist
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Preventive measures range from putting lights on timers to planting prickly hedges.
The Guardian
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I shall miss the prickly cactus and the delicious dry heat, too.
Timescape
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Xanthe made her way to a seat next to the prickly Hun.
The Last Gladiatrix
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Which is a strange version of a sort of chronic prickly heat.
The Guardian
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De Gaulle, comrade, is a most antagonistic and prickly sort of person.
Red inferno: 1945
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Here, three rocky outcrops lie among a sea of thick, prickly plants.
BBC
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At the end of the prickly tube stood a small red door.
The iron king
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