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Definition of Spikiest
1. spiky [adj] - See also: spiky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spikiest
Literary usage of Spikiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Illustrated Magazine (1899)
"... studded the lower part of thr poles with spikes, but the hirsute buffalo
required no ordinary currycomb, and ever after preferred the spikiest ..."
2. Life of Richard Wagner by Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis (1908)
"... he is unlikely to have raised so many apt objections, for they would not have
found the slightest difficulty with the smallest or spikiest type. ..."
3. Russia in the 'eighties,': Sport and Politics by John Frederick Baddeley (1921)
"This nest was near the top of a tall and very dense spruce, full of the spikiest
of branches. I brought down the egg in safety—I have it still—but at ..."
4. The King with Two Faces by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge (1898)
"And Adolf felt abashed and ashamed at his patron's simplicity, copied out the
verses for him in his neatest and spikiest handwriting, and ransacked the ..."
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