spiky

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spiky englannista suomeksi

1. terävä

1. tähkä-">tähkä-, tähkivä

2. tähkämäinen

3. piikikäs

4. piikkimäinen

spiky englanniksi

1. (senseid) Of a plant: producing (l).

2. (quote-journal)|volume=XXIV, part I|issue=CXLVI|page=711|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi24edinuoft/page/711/mode/1up|column=2|oclc=1781863|passage=The harvest maids began to look knowingly to their partners, who, taking the hint, sprang to their feet, hauled up their sweet abettors, were mated in a moment, and commenced a dance among the stubble, so brisk, that the tall harvest of spiky wheat, standing by, rustled and nodded to them on its golden rods.

3. (quote-journal)|location=London|publisher=(...) Richard Lambert,(nb...)|volume=XXXII|issue=820|page=11|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZrY_AQAAMAAJ&pg=RA10-PA11|column=2|oclc=610857780|passage=The irritation (quote-gloss) has generally been ascribed rather to the odour of sweet-vernal-grass and scented holcus than to the distinctive action of the pollen itself. The latter species is unknown in English meadows, but sweet-vernal-grass is familiar to most of us as the peculiar spiky plant to which new-mown hay owes with us the whole of its delicious fragrance.|footer=(small)'' (10 June 1884), page 4, column 1.

4. Of a plant part: resembling a spike of a plant ''(see above)''.

5. (RQ:Dodoens Lyte Niewe Herball) The ſtalkes (quote-gloss) be creſted or ſtraked, and beare at the toppe fayre ſpiked knappes with white floures or bloſſoms, like the ſpykie knoppes of the middle Plantayne.

6. (RQ:Culpeper English Physitian)

7. (senseid) Having one or more spikes; spiny.

8. (RQ:Homer Pope Iliad)

9. (quote-book)

10. (senseid) Resembling spikes: erect and having sharp points; spikelike.

11. (RQ:Wordsworth River Duddon)

12. (RQ:Dickens Tale of Two Cities)

13. (RQ:Besant Deacon's Orders)

14. (quote-book) in association with the (w)|page=70|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/englishhistorydi0000unse/page/70/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-415-13117-9|passage=We see here how habits of handwriting continued to be stratified by social class and gender. Roundness, as with earlier secretary hand, was a signifier of trade – a spikier hand was regarded as more fitting for young ladies' personal letter writing.

16. Of a person or their nature: difficult to deal with; abrasive, hostile, unfriendly.

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17. Of a thing: not smooth; rough, sharp.

18. (quote-journal)|journal=Community News (Boston)|Gay Community News|location=Boston, Mass.|publisher=The Bromfield Street Educational Foundation|volume=15|issue=38|page=16|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/gaycommunitynews1538gayc/page/n15/mode/1up|column=4|issn=0147-0728|oclc=1004949480|passage=It started with Ron (quote-gloss) soloing on "He Wasn't Talking to Me," a quiet and wistful ballad that segued into the upbeat and spiky "Give Me a Man Who's Glad to Be Gay." This was a pride anthem about being gay with a few nudges at those carrying their closets with them to the bars (Straight looking marine seeks/straight looking cop to please/How straight can they look/when they're down on their knees?).

19. Excessively (l).

20. (quote-web)

21. (quote-journal)