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Meaning of SPIKY

Pronunciation:  'spIkee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [adj]  having or as if having especially high-pitched spots; "absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass"
 
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 Synonyms: high, high-pitched, peaky
 

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Spik"y\, a.
1. Like a spike; spikelike.
         These spiky, vivid outbursts of metallic vapors.
                                               --C. A. Young.
2. Having a sharp point, or sharp points; furnished or armed
   with spikes.
         Or by the spiky harrow cleared away.  --Dyer.
         The spiky wheels through heaps of carnage tore.
                                               --Pope.
 
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