Meaning of prickish | Babel Free

Definitions

having the characteristics of a prick; being unpleasant, rude or annoying.

informal, vulgar

Examples

“The lost cause of psychoanalysis, so infused with a non-intellectual bias, dominated by partisan interests, and characterized by a stunning degree of ill-will and prickish behaviour, has finally made way for a new cause – actually an old one – that of rigorous, informed scholarship.”

CEFR level