caustic, sarcastic, acerbic, pithy, snide, vitriolic, vituperative, waspish, snarky, wry, jocular, scabrous, sardonic, waggish, lacerating, jokey, venomous, blunt, scornful, spiky, witty, mordant, derisive, quippy, prickly, catty, profane, recriminatory, stinging, trenchant, terse, offhand, scathing, glib, satirical, satiric, humorous, bristly, droll, ribald, biting, abrasive, epigrammatic, verbose, uproarious, dismissive, flippant, rhetorical, bombastic, tactless, disobliging, testy, vehement, reproachful, loquacious, unstatesmanlike, amusing, gnomic, fatuous, bons mots, unquotable, bluntest, cryptic, curt, sneery, florid, polemical, sly, humerous, venemous, digressive, bilious, condescending, intemperate, schoolboyish, verbal, brusque, comical, ineloquent, combative, impertinent, incendiary, rapier, splenetic, deadpan, withering, accusatory, sophomoric, tongued, rebarbative, strident, brusk, lighthearted, undiplomatic, mealymouthed, pungent, maladroit, humoristic, contemptuous, effusive, laconic, fulsome, hooked, pointed, sharpened, blunted, socketed, pointing, sharpest, sharppointed, envenomed, tipped, venomed, bent, forked, incurved, recurved, reflexed, serrated, spatulate

., abatis, abattis, bangalore torpedo, barb, broad arrow, canada porcupine, cheval-de-frise, chevaux-de-frise, concertina, erethizon dorsatum, fishgig, fishhook, fizgig, gig, glochid, glochidium, harpoon, lance, spear, stingray, thrust, tick

armed, barbellate, biting, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, nipping, prickly, pungent, sarcastic, spiny, thorny