bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness
(noun) a rough and bitter manner
prickliness, bristliness, spininess, thorniness
(noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
Source: WordNet® 3.1
thorniness (usually uncountable, plural thorninesses)
The property of being thorny (of having thorns or metaphorically being difficult).
• Hornsteins
Source: Wiktionary
20 January 2025
(noun) either of the first pair of fang-like appendages near the mouth of an arachnid; often modified for grasping and piercing
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
