prickly
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prickly (ˈprɪklɪ) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj , -lier, -liest | |
| 1. | having or covered with prickles |
| 2. | stinging or tingling |
| 3. | bad-tempered or irritable |
| 4. | full of difficulties; knotty: a prickly problem |
| 'prickliness | |
| —n | |
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Prickly
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
Example sentences
Soon they were busy round a prickly fir-tree at the end of the lawn.
The second one clears out the sinuses and leaves the tongue and throat throbbing with prickly heat.
On benches above the streambed, yellow and pink blooms of prickly pear cactus herald the spring.
He prefers the prickly, the individual, the brilliant.
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