prickly

adjective

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
持つか保護的な鉤、大羽根、背骨、刺または剛毛などで覆われます
- a horse with a short bristly mane
  短い剛毛のたてがみをもつ馬
- bristly shrubs
  剛毛の低木
- burred fruits
  とげのある果実
- setaceous whiskers
  剛毛のほおひげ
very irritable
非常にいらいらする
- bristly exchanges between the White House and the press
  ホワイトハウスとプレスの間の攻撃的なやりとり
- he became prickly and spiteful
  彼は、とげのある毒舌になった
- witty and waspish about his colleagues
  彼の同僚に関して、気が利いて、意地悪い

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