spikyadj.¹

Brit.

/ˈspʌɪki/, U.S.

/ˈspaɪki/

Forms: Also 1500s spikie, spykie.

Etymology: < spike n.¹

Having the form of a flower-spike; characterized by the production of spikes or ears. In some contexts not clearly distinct from spiky adj.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > thorn or prickle > [adjective]

thornenc897

thornyc1000

armeda1398

pikeda1398

thornish1426

pricky1548

prickly1577

prickled1578

spiky1578

sharp-set1601

spiny1604

senticous1657

aculeous1658

spinous1668

spineal1688

spinose1693

aculeate1753

spinescent1793

aculeolate1818

aciculated1819

spinulose1819

spinulescent1836

spinulous1846

thorned1895

the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [adjective] > having particular shape, type, or arrangement > of a spike

spiky1578

spicous1658

spicated1661

spicate1668

spicaceous1756

spiciform1836

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 105 The floures grow..upon long purple, spykie, knoppes like to the eares or spikes of Bistorte.

1656 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 162 The stalk riseth above this Leaf..like the spiky head of the Adders-Tongue.

1778 J. Scott Moral Ecl. iii. 9 Spiky mint rich fragrance breathing round.

1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 711/2 The tall harvest of spiky wheat.

1883 Knowledge 8 June 336/2 Rye-grass,..a common roadside weed..with..a number of spiky flower-heads.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 June 4/1 Sweet-vernal-grass..the peculiar spiky plant to which new~mown hay owes with us the whole of its delicious fragrance.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

spikyadj.²

Brit.

/ˈspʌɪki/, U.S.

/ˈspaɪki/

Forms: Also 1700s– spikey.

Etymology: < spike n.²

1. Fitted with a spike or spikes; having sharp projecting points.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [adjective] > having (a) sharp projection(s)

tootheda1387

tatteredc1394

beaked1589

toothy1611

beaking1679

spiked1681

sworded1681

pronged1707

spiky1720

teethful1729

sharp-pointed1748

spiculated1762

arrowy1791

nibbed1794

shark-toothed1794

tusky1830

spicant1867

spurry1875

1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xx. 585 The spiky Wheels thro' Heaps of Carnage tore; And thick the groaning Axles dropp'd with Gore.

1764 J. Randall Semi-Virgilian Husbandry App. 1 Mr. Ellis, in one of his eight volumes on Husbandry, made mention of a spiky roller.

1767 R. Jago Edge-hill iii. 120 By gainful Commerce of her woolly Vests, Wrought by the spiky Comb.

1866 Daily Tel. 20 Jan. 3/6 His martial cloak..around him, and the usual spiky helmet on his head.

1893 G. Allen Scallywag I. 97 A couple of large spiky shells.

in combination.1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 18 The latter has scarcely ten vigorous plants in the whole field;— though spikey-rolled, and repeatedly harrowed.

2. Having the form of a spike or spikes; stiff and sharp-pointed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > condition of tapering to a point > [adjective]

piked1269

pointedc1325

sharp1340

peakedc1350

pricked?a1425

sharp-pointed1530

acuatea1550

piquant1549

picked1552

corned?c1562

arrow-headed1567

acuminated1578

pointing1578

acute1598

exasperated1608

spitted1626

pointy1644

sagittal1656

pecked1662

piqued1689

spired1694

piky1741

spiky1743

spiry1777

apexed1813

beak-shaped1830

peaky1832

apiculated1839

cusped1888

sagittiform1895

cuspate1896

1743 R. Blair Grave 12 The tapering Pyramid!.. Whose spiky Top Has wounded the thick Cloud.

1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 298 [Calcedony] filiform, tubular, or spiky.

1810 W. Wordsworth Prose Wks. (1876) II. 282 If ten thousand of this spiky tree, the larch, are stuck in at once upon the side of a hill, they can grow up into nothing but deformity.

1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. i. 35 With his spiky hair looking as if it must tear the sheets to ribbons.

1894 W. Besant Equal Woman 126 A dozen spiky thorns sticking into him in the most cruel manner.

in combination.1850 G. Cupples Green Hand vii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 86/2 The high bundles of knotted and jointed bamboo, with their spiky-tufted crowns.

3. figurative. Suggestive of spikes; sharp.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective]

sharpc1000

impatient1377

out-sharpinga1382

teethya1500

fumish1523

testy1526

crabbed1535

tettish1567

peevish1577

kickish1589

splenetic1593

spleenful1594

tetchy1596

wasp-stung1598

touchy1602

spleeny1604

pruriginous1609

teety1621

splenitive1633

peltish1648

irritable1662

splenatic1663

splenetive1678

unheer1691

rusty1694

nettlesome1766

stingy1781

snarly1798

tutty1809

spleenical1818

rileya1824

nettly1825

edgy1837

porcupinal1846

shirty1846

raspish1854

peckish1857

streaky1860

owly1864

teasy1866

fussy1869

raspy1869

spiky1881

chippyc1885

tetchous1890

narky1895

snarky1906

ringy1907

snarkish1912

Scot1916

crooked1945

niggly1952

snooty1959

kvetchy1965

to be on the rag1967

sandpaper1976

gribble1984

splenous-

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [adjective] > spiky

spiky1955

1881 E. Lynn Linton My Love! I. 94 To oppose smoothness to her spiky irritability.

1930 M. Kennedy Fool of Family xv. 147 ‘How spikey you are!’ protested Fenella mildly. ‘Oh, yes. Keep your temper when I'm rude. You would.’

1955 Times 4 Aug. 10/5 What matter that the melodic line is as seductively curved as that of any of the great operatic romanticists of the near past, instead of being spiky and angular in the contemporary fashion?

1964 D. Crystal & R. Quirk Syst. Prosodic & Paraling. Features Eng. iv. 47 Pitch variation, with extremes in a ‘spiky’ movement on the one hand..and in a ‘glissando’ movement..on the other.

1981 N. J. Crisp Festival vii. 176 He seemed more relaxed..not as spiky and difficult as he had been.

4. Of a particularly ritualistic or High-Church Anglican character. slang.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [adjective] > observing slavishly

ceremonious1553

ritualistic1844

formalistic1856

spiky1893

1893 W. Bright Let. 20 Oct. (1903) 348 The ultras, as they might be called, on the Catholic side, present Church ideas, too often, in a form altogether too hard to be attractive; I believe I am said to have called it ‘spiky’, in a letter to my friend the Principal of Ely College.

1921 Church Times 12 Aug. 147/3 We wonder what would be thought of some of his sayings if they were uttered by a spiky young curate to-day.

1929 S. L. Ollard in Notes & Queries 8 June 408/2 ‘Spiky’ meant a hard, unyielding, rather ‘wooden’ type of Anglo-Catholic dogmatist... The adherents of this ‘spiky’ method came, naturally, to be called ‘spikes’.

1950 A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 34 She became a daily communicant and delighted the more ‘spikey’ of her neighbours.

1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 July 505/1 Her story is of the American priest, Charles Phillips, whose churchmanship would in England be rated high-to-spiky.

1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn xxiv. 212 He had been a server at the spikiest Anglo-Catholic church.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spiky
释义	spikyadj.¹ Brit. /ˈspʌɪki/, U.S. /ˈspaɪki/ Forms: Also 1500s spikie, spykie. Etymology: < spike n.¹ Having the form of a flower-spike; characterized by the production of spikes or ears. In some contexts not clearly distinct from spiky adj.² ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > thorn or prickle > [adjective] thornenc897 thornyc1000 armeda1398 pikeda1398 thornish1426 pricky1548 prickly1577 prickled1578 spiky1578 sharp-set1601 spiny1604 senticous1657 aculeous1658 spinous1668 spineal1688 spinose1693 aculeate1753 spinescent1793 aculeolate1818 aciculated1819 spinulose1819 spinulescent1836 spinulous1846 thorned1895 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > inflorescence or collective flower > [adjective] > having particular shape, type, or arrangement > of a spike spiky1578 spicous1658 spicated1661 spicate1668 spicaceous1756 spiciform1836 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 105 The floures grow..upon long purple, spykie, knoppes like to the eares or spikes of Bistorte. 1656 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged 162 The stalk riseth above this Leaf..like the spiky head of the Adders-Tongue. 1778 J. Scott Moral Ecl. iii. 9 Spiky mint rich fragrance breathing round. 1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 711/2 The tall harvest of spiky wheat. 1883 Knowledge 8 June 336/2 Rye-grass,..a common roadside weed..with..a number of spiky flower-heads. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 June 4/1 Sweet-vernal-grass..the peculiar spiky plant to which new~mown hay owes with us the whole of its delicious fragrance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). spikyadj.² Brit. /ˈspʌɪki/, U.S. /ˈspaɪki/ Forms: Also 1700s– spikey. Etymology: < spike n.² 1. Fitted with a spike or spikes; having sharp projecting points. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > sharp unevenness > [adjective] > having (a) sharp projection(s) tootheda1387 tatteredc1394 beaked1589 toothy1611 beaking1679 spiked1681 sworded1681 pronged1707 spiky1720 teethful1729 sharp-pointed1748 spiculated1762 arrowy1791 nibbed1794 shark-toothed1794 tusky1830 spicant1867 spurry1875 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xx. 585 The spiky Wheels thro' Heaps of Carnage tore; And thick the groaning Axles dropp'd with Gore. 1764 J. Randall Semi-Virgilian Husbandry App. 1 Mr. Ellis, in one of his eight volumes on Husbandry, made mention of a spiky roller. 1767 R. Jago Edge-hill iii. 120 By gainful Commerce of her woolly Vests, Wrought by the spiky Comb. 1866 Daily Tel. 20 Jan. 3/6 His martial cloak..around him, and the usual spiky helmet on his head. 1893 G. Allen Scallywag I. 97 A couple of large spiky shells. in combination.1779 W. Marshall Exper. & Observ. conc. Agric. & Weather 18 The latter has scarcely ten vigorous plants in the whole field;— though spikey-rolled, and repeatedly harrowed. 2. Having the form of a spike or spikes; stiff and sharp-pointed. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > condition of tapering to a point > [adjective] piked1269 pointedc1325 sharp1340 peakedc1350 pricked?a1425 sharp-pointed1530 acuatea1550 piquant1549 picked1552 corned?c1562 arrow-headed1567 acuminated1578 pointing1578 acute1598 exasperated1608 spitted1626 pointy1644 sagittal1656 pecked1662 piqued1689 spired1694 piky1741 spiky1743 spiry1777 apexed1813 beak-shaped1830 peaky1832 apiculated1839 cusped1888 sagittiform1895 cuspate1896 1743 R. Blair Grave 12 The tapering Pyramid!.. Whose spiky Top Has wounded the thick Cloud. 1794 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) I. 298 [Calcedony] filiform, tubular, or spiky. 1810 W. Wordsworth Prose Wks. (1876) II. 282 If ten thousand of this spiky tree, the larch, are stuck in at once upon the side of a hill, they can grow up into nothing but deformity. 1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities ii. i. 35 With his spiky hair looking as if it must tear the sheets to ribbons. 1894 W. Besant Equal Woman 126 A dozen spiky thorns sticking into him in the most cruel manner. in combination.1850 G. Cupples Green Hand vii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 86/2 The high bundles of knotted and jointed bamboo, with their spiky-tufted crowns. 3. figurative. Suggestive of spikes; sharp. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > irritability > irritable [adjective] sharpc1000 impatient1377 out-sharpinga1382 teethya1500 fumish1523 testy1526 crabbed1535 tettish1567 peevish1577 kickish1589 splenetic1593 spleenful1594 tetchy1596 wasp-stung1598 touchy1602 spleeny1604 pruriginous1609 teety1621 splenitive1633 peltish1648 irritable1662 splenatic1663 splenetive1678 unheer1691 rusty1694 nettlesome1766 stingy1781 snarly1798 tutty1809 spleenical1818 rileya1824 nettly1825 edgy1837 porcupinal1846 shirty1846 raspish1854 peckish1857 streaky1860 owly1864 teasy1866 fussy1869 raspy1869 spiky1881 chippyc1885 tetchous1890 narky1895 snarky1906 ringy1907 snarkish1912 Scot1916 crooked1945 niggly1952 snooty1959 kvetchy1965 to be on the rag1967 sandpaper1976 gribble1984 splenous- society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [adjective] > spiky spiky1955 1881 E. Lynn Linton My Love! I. 94 To oppose smoothness to her spiky irritability. 1930 M. Kennedy Fool of Family xv. 147 ‘How spikey you are!’ protested Fenella mildly. ‘Oh, yes. Keep your temper when I'm rude. You would.’ 1955 Times 4 Aug. 10/5 What matter that the melodic line is as seductively curved as that of any of the great operatic romanticists of the near past, instead of being spiky and angular in the contemporary fashion? 1964 D. Crystal & R. Quirk Syst. Prosodic & Paraling. Features Eng. iv. 47 Pitch variation, with extremes in a ‘spiky’ movement on the one hand..and in a ‘glissando’ movement..on the other. 1981 N. J. Crisp Festival vii. 176 He seemed more relaxed..not as spiky and difficult as he had been. 4. Of a particularly ritualistic or High-Church Anglican character. slang. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > rule, rubric > [adjective] > observing slavishly ceremonious1553 ritualistic1844 formalistic1856 spiky1893 1893 W. Bright Let. 20 Oct. (1903) 348 The ultras, as they might be called, on the Catholic side, present Church ideas, too often, in a form altogether too hard to be attractive; I believe I am said to have called it ‘spiky’, in a letter to my friend the Principal of Ely College. 1921 Church Times 12 Aug. 147/3 We wonder what would be thought of some of his sayings if they were uttered by a spiky young curate to-day. 1929 S. L. Ollard in Notes & Queries 8 June 408/2 ‘Spiky’ meant a hard, unyielding, rather ‘wooden’ type of Anglo-Catholic dogmatist... The adherents of this ‘spiky’ method came, naturally, to be called ‘spikes’. 1950 A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 34 She became a daily communicant and delighted the more ‘spikey’ of her neighbours. 1962 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 July 505/1 Her story is of the American priest, Charles Phillips, whose churchmanship would in England be rated high-to-spiky. 1977 B. Pym Quartet in Autumn xxiv. 212 He had been a server at the spikiest Anglo-Catholic church. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.¹1578adj.²1720
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