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Not to be outdone in creativity, the natural science entries offer pollynose, prickly pig, puppy toes, Quaker bonnet, railroad Annie, and sac-a-lait, among many, many others.
Stalin wanted outright subservience; Tito, unique in having liberated his country with his own partisan resources, was far too prickly to knuckle under.
The NYT says that the Albanians have been more "prickly" than anticipated, hesitating to sign an agreement that doesn't explicitly promise an eventual referendum on self-governance for the region, a stance the LAT also reports.
Her delivery isn't moist--it's prickly and blunt, and she can jabber convincingly, so that the jabbering takes on a life of its own and leaves her (sometimes horrified) in the dust.
Even though he is the personification of the company, an inside WP story observes that defense lawyers might have viewed him as so "prickly and combustible" as to undermine his own case.