形容詞 prickly:

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

1. He learns sports prickly.
   他運(yùn)動素質(zhì)不錯。
2. Heat sometimes causes a prickly rash on the skin.
   熱有時使皮膚上生剌痛的疹子。
3. The child's rubber ball punctured when it fell on a prickly bush.
   那小孩的皮球落在帶刺的樹叢上時被戳破了。
4. Bearing or covered with spines or bristles; prickly.
   棘皮的具有或覆蓋有針或刺的; 多刺的

prick.ly

adj.（形容詞）
prick.li.er,prick.li.est
Having prickles.
有刺的
Marked by prickling or tingling or smarting:
刺痛的：以針刺般的痛或劇痛為特征的：
例句：
a prickly sensation in my foot.
我腳上的刺痛感

Causing trouble or vexation; thorny:
麻煩的：引起麻煩或煩惱的；使人生氣的：
例句：
a prickly situation.
麻煩的處境

Bristling or irritable:
易怒的：易激怒的或易生氣的：
例句：
.In consequence, he became rebarbative, prickly, spiteful.(Robert Craft)
.結(jié)果是，他變得令人討厭、易怒而又惡毒.(羅伯特·克拉弗特)

【引伸】
prick.liness
n.（名詞）