Wiktionary:Word of the day/2025/May 19

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Word of the day
for May 19
spiky adj (botany)
  1. Of a plant: producing spikes (“ears (as of corn); inflorescences in which sessile flowers are arranged on unbranched elongated axes”).
  2. Of a plant part: resembling a spike of a plant (see above).

  1. Having one or more spikes; spiny.
  2. Resembling spikes: erect and having sharp points; spikelike.
  3. (figurative)
    1. Of a person or their nature: difficult to deal with; abrasive, hostile, unfriendly.
    2. Of a thing: not smooth; rough, sharp.
    3. (Anglicanism, derogatory, slang) Strongly high church (“practising a formal style of liturgy and emphasizing continuity with Catholicism”).
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