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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 prickly
      adj 1: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House
             and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful";
             "witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly,
              splenetic, waspish]
      2: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines
         or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly
         mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous
         whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery,
          bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setose, setaceous,
          spiny, thorny]
      [also: prickliest, pricklier]

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 pricklier
      See prickly