prickery

I know from bitter experience that flash greasy foreign types do not have the monopoly on general lying cheating unreliable weasellish prickery - our good old home-grown Brit men also do this extremely well, albeit with a less impressive set of wheels.

Archive 2008-10-01 juliette 2008

I know from bitter experience that flash greasy foreign types do not have the monopoly on general lying cheating unreliable weasellish prickery - our good old home-grown Brit men also do this extremely well, albeit with a less impressive set of wheels.

Have I Got News For You juliette 2008

Typical Tory me first I want , I bags , selfish narrow prickery.

Labour MP Dies 2007

Putting aside the particularly heinous nature of his prickery for the moment by the way, "Stan," it wasn't my parents' house that was damaged, it was mine, and my wife and son who were also in harm's way.

On federal bailouts: Straying from "Don't feed the trolls" Sinfonian 2004

Putting aside the particularly heinous nature of his prickery for the moment by the way, "Stan," it wasn't my parents' house that was damaged, it was mine, and my wife and son who were also in harm's way.

Archive 2004-09-26 Sinfonian 2004

And I got some wild holly, which is very pretty indeed; it has very glossy and prickery leaves.

Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

It's a bevy of buffoonery, a plethora of pulchritudinous puffed-up prickery out there. * g*

Firedoglake 2009

I have seen a great many hedges made of it since I have been here; for nothing can get over it or get through it, for it is almost as prickery as the Hawthorne [the bush and the family name were always the same thing to us children], of which almost all the hedges in Liverpool, and everywhere I have been, are made; and there it grows up into high trees, so that nothing in the world can look through it, or climb over it, or crawl through it; and I am afraid our poor hedge in Concord will never look so well, because the earth round it is so sandy and dry, and here it is so very moist and rich.

Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888