<adj.all> bristly exchanges between the White House and the press he became prickly and spiteful witty and waspish about his colleagues
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
<adj.all> a horse with a short bristly mane bristly shrubs burred fruits setaceous whiskers
Prickly \Prick"ly\, a. Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub.
{Prickly heat} (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of red pimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the parts affected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat glands, and is often brought on by overheating the skin in hot weather.
{Prickly pear} (Bot.), a name given to several plants of the cactaceous genus {Opuntia}, American plants consisting of fleshy, leafless, usually flattened, and often prickly joints inserted upon each other. The sessile flowers have many petals and numerous stamens. The edible fruit is a large pear-shaped berry containing many flattish seeds. The common species of the Northern Atlantic States is {Opuntia vulgaris}. In the South and West are many others, and in tropical America more than a hundred more. {Opuntia vulgaris}, {Opuntia Ficus-Indica}, and {Opuntia Tuna} are abundantly introduced in the Mediterranean region, and {Opuntia Dillenii} has become common in India.
{Prickly pole} (Bot.), a West Indian palm ({Bactris Plumierana}), the slender trunk of which bears many rings of long black prickles.
{Prickly withe} (Bot.), a West Indian cactaceous plant ({Cereus triangularis}) having prickly, slender, climbing, triangular stems.
{Prickly rat} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of South American burrowing rodents belonging to {Ctenomys} and allied genera. The hair is usually intermingled with sharp spines.
The ground is covered with prickly pear cactus and creosote bushes, the high, spindly ocotillo called buggy whips and the needle-pointed lechuguilla.
"The romance with Anthony will be prickly, just like in real life.
One form, however, is more like a flowering gooseberry, the prickly ribes speciosum.
Select instead a bouquet of porcini mushrooms, a pair of smoked quail or a basket of prickly pears.
Mr. Emory retreats and moves on to continue what's become a prickly crusade over American officialdom's management of the 50th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
A prickly attitude is somewhat understandable, too.
The Tuneros are named for the peasant harvesters of the tuna, the Spanish word for prickly pear.
She is a prickly, contentious creature but eminently sensible and good at heart, he a 60-year-old gentleman impoverished by his ex-wife's gambling.
By contrast, the Americans struck Mr. Foster as prickly.
Political campaigning, already under way, will boost spirits as investors contemplate a stronger government ready to tackle the huge budget deficit and the prickly negotiations on labor costs, viewed as crucial to Italian industry's future.
Atlantic Richfield Co.'s entry into the battle for Britoil PLC poses some prickly questions for the British government, which despite its hands-off market policies has its hands firmly on Britoil's fate.
Garden centres can still surprise us all among the usual range of mallows and buddleias: I have grown a plant of this osmanthus with its mildly prickly evergreen leaves for the past 20 years.
Mrs. Reagan, whose prickly relationship with Raisa Gorbachev was evident during this week's Moscow summit, was asked whether she was happy to be seeing Queen Elizabeth II rather than the Soviet leader's wife.
The Europeans, apart from Britain's unswervingly pro-American Margaret Thatcher, are often prickly about U.S. muscle.
The interim meeting suggests that the prickly renegotiation of the former Soviet Union's bank debt has only just begun.
Where 'PG' relished the role of prickly outsider, based in Gothenburg, the 'second city', Mr Svanholm will be at ease and fully trusted by his Stockholm-based institutional shareholders.
The brouhaha raises some prickly legal questions about how much control stars have over the use of their names in advertising.
Mr. Langsford's high-mindedness, however, has its prickly side as well.
The marriage of Murrow and television was always a prickly one.
Though classical and orthodox at ground level, it grows slowly into something entirely vegetable; conventional architraves put out shoots and end up as prickly leaves of stone.
He tends toward a more formal style, and U.S. officials consider him prickly.
With Maxwell, what's alarming is how complex and interrelated things are." The prickly and litigious Mr. Maxwell lashes out at those who suggest his empire is wobbly.
And with the quiet pragmatism of Mr. Guzman Cabrera replacing the prickly populism of La Quina, government technocrats have been given a free hand to open the petrochemical sector to wider private and foreign investment.
In fact, the 45-year-old is an integral part of a long-term strategy established by 'the Old Man', as von Kuenheim styled himself. The prickly Prussian prepared his succession and his strategy carefully.
But the Gatt negotiations enter the home straight just as France is bracing itself for what its culturally prickly establishment sees as another wave of American celluloid imperialism.
Griffin is a prickly character who plays with a 'get outta the way' urgency - even the ballads on this night had a hectoring tone.
Ads are a prickly issue for environmental publications.
In May, ranchers in the parched Texas prairies were burning thorns off prickly cactuses to feed to cattle.
Mexico has abandoned its traditional economic policy of prickly autarky, and also its traditional anti-gringo political rhetoric.
Larry Davidson lavished months of attention on one prickly vine in hopes of growing the Great Pumpkin, but was disappointed when plants he gave less water and manure produced greater gourds.