prickly

形容词 prickly:

1. very irritable
   同义词：bristly, splenetic, waspish
2. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
   同义词：barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny

1. He learns sports prickly.
   他运动素质不错。
2. Heat sometimes causes a prickly rash on the skin.
   热有时使皮肤上生剌痛的疹子。
3. The child's rubber ball punctured when it fell on a prickly bush.
   那小孩的皮球落在带刺的树丛上时被戳破了。
4. Bearing or covered with spines or bristles; prickly.
   棘皮的具有或覆盖有针或刺的; 多刺的

prick.ly

adj.（形容词）
prick.li.er,prick.li.est
Having prickles.
有刺的
Marked by prickling or tingling or smarting:
刺痛的：以针刺般的痛或剧痛为特征的：
例句：
a prickly sensation in my foot.
我脚上的刺痛感

Causing trouble or vexation; thorny:
麻烦的：引起麻烦或烦恼的；使人生气的：
例句：
a prickly situation.
麻烦的处境

Bristling or irritable:
易怒的：易激怒的或易生气的：
例句：
.In consequence, he became rebarbative, prickly, spiteful.(Robert Craft)
.结果是，他变得令人讨厌、易怒而又恶毒.(罗伯特·克拉弗特)

【引伸】
prick.liness
n.（名词）