prickeared

The boy, being in some confusion, inquired of the next he met, which was the way to _Anne_'s Lane; but was called a prickeared cur for his pains, and instead of being shown the way, was told that she had been a saint before he was born, and would be one after he was hanged.

The Coverley Papers Various

This horse looks out at any who look in, prickeared, exaggerated mane and tail caught in a half-levade, hocks behind heels.

Perspective 2007

This horse looks out at any who look in, prickeared, exaggerated mane and tail caught in a half-levade, hocks behind heels.

Perspective 2007

Grey hath been beaten back from Bridport by the red militia of Dorset, but every prickeared Whig from the Channel to the Severn is making his way to Monmouth. '

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

One or two of the elder guests, whose hair had been thinned by time, had their heads covered with a skull-cap of black silk or velvet, which, being drawn down betwixt the ears and the skull, and permitting no hair to escape, occasioned the former to project in the ungraceful manner which may be remarked in old pictures, and which procured for the Puritans the term of "prickeared Roundheads," so unceremoniously applied to them by their contemporaries.

Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801

'prickeared,' so often applied to them by their opponents.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

“prickeared Roundheads,” so unceremoniously applied to them by their contemporaries.

Peveril of the Peak 1822