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adjective bristling with perplexities
adjective having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
originFrom Middle English thorny, þorny, þorni, from Old English þorniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *þornag. By surface analysis, thorn + -y.
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