Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having one or more projecting sharp points.
- adj. Grouchy or cross in temperament.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the shape of a spike; having a sharp point or points; spike-like.
- Set with spikes; covered with spikes.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Like a spike; spikelike.
- adj. Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed with spikes.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having or as if having especially high-pitched spots
Etymologies
- spike + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Note teasing of bangs at crown: lower part of the bang is brushed down across forehead; upper part is brushed upward in spiky faux pompadour.”
““A surface coated in spiky polymer molecules destroys the flu virus at a touch,” Scientific American reported last month.”
“I had to think what you were referring to as the spiky pup, Pineapple Princess?”
“Colleagues recalled her spiky wit and den-mother affection for fellow writers.”
“They say you're not a real person; they say you're a witch; they call us names, "said Runeyi, who wears her hair in short, spiky braids.”
“Dypsis dracaenoides, which resembles another plant known as the spiky dragon tree.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“Harvey's music started out as a kind of spiky, post-Beefheart blues, but this song finds her taking firm root in the English folk tradition.”
“And for the girls, a story of a "spiky," unstereotypical girl -- a Korean-American martial arts champion who gets sideswiped by hormones and almost loses her way.”
“A quiet word from Carl and I even seen Huw Lewis at his most 'spiky' just fade away.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spiky’.
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
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Wrapped up in books
I'm reading books. And there are words and phrases I come upon for the first time, or that are used with usages that are new to me.
So, this is just a plain list of those words. Don't expect ...hobble, mackerel, crone, cavort, hoyden, rheumy, scatter, hiss, recoil, trundle, shatter, flaxen and 200 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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Nigella Bites
words from the cookbook "Nigella Bites" by Nigella Lawson
intend, evangelical, present, nattering space, inevitably, consequently, techniques, liqueur, purist, frankly, constraints, jot and 256 more...
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Creative Onomatopoeia
Words that sound like what they mean, but they're not *technically* onomatopoetic.
(another edit: this list is morphing into something I can't quite describe. But I still like it.)ugly, icon, hang, weenie, bell, zit, ennui, sour, speed, rankle, muddle, disgruntle and 129 more...
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Evin290's Words
puerile, fastidious, blatherskite, folderol, femtosecond, redox, incarnadine, cerulean, genuflection, muslin, multitudinous, miasma and 517 more...
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