porcupinish

The dog at once sprang up again from his recumbent position on the hearthrug; while Mouser, his excessive spiny and porcupinish appearance having become somewhat toned down, was now watchfully observing this new variety of the dog species, which his natural instinct taught him to regard with antagonism and yet who was so utterly different from Burgher

Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes

Hats, brimless, or with brims very much turned up or very much turned down, two flaming red turbans, and a round handleless basket, through the open wicker-work of which the hair of the wearer straggled in the most outlandish and porcupinish manner, constituted their head-gear.

Harper's Young People, March 30, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

Then the insertion of a row of long white wooden skewers gives one a peculiarly porcupinish look; or a row of little brass danglers hints of wealth.

African Camp Fires Stewart Edward White 1909

Beyond doubt he was occasionally gruff, he was churlish, he was porcupinish.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

I had now for the first time in my life a distinct sense of that sort of porcupinish motion over the whole scalp which is so frequently described by the Latin poets.

Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Robert Southey 1808