prickery

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Slang; Uncountable

"The women's game isn't blighted with nearly as much preening, posing or all-round prickery."
"“God's blood, Thomas, self-righteous prickery is not the preserve of the English!”"
"It is hard to zone in on a particular Dragon or ex-Dragon, given the strong claims to prickery of both Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne."

From prick + -ery.

prickishness

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