tunokon : Binisaya - Cebuano to English Dictionary and Thesaurus.

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Word:

Word - rootword - affixes
tunokon - tunok - -on~
tu.nu.kun. - 3 syllables

-on = tunokon
tunokon

tunokon [tu.nu.kun.] :	barbed (adj.); prickly (adj.); thorny (adj.)
tunok [tu.nuk.] :	spike (n.); thorn (n.)

Related words: sampinit

Derivatives of tunok

Glosses:

barbed
adj.	1. barbed, biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent	capable of wounding.; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
	~ sarcastic	expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds.
adj.	2. barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny	having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc..; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
	~ armed	(used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns.
prickly
adj.	1. bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish	very irritable.; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
	~ ill-natured	having an irritable and unpleasant disposition.
thorny
adj.	1. thorny	bristling with perplexities.; "the thorny question of states' rights"
	~ difficult, hard	not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure.; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
thorn
n. (cognition)	1. irritant, thorn	something that causes irritation and annoyance.; "he's a thorn in my flesh"
	~ pain in the ass, bother, botheration, pain in the neck, infliction, annoyance, pain	something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness.; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction"
n. (plant)	2. pricker, prickle, spikelet, spine, sticker, thorn	a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf.
	~ aculeus	a stiff sharp-pointed plant process.
	~ glochid, glochidium	a barbed spine or bristle (often tufted on cacti).
n. (communication)	3. thorn	a Germanic character of runic origin.
	~ rune, runic letter	any character from an ancient Germanic alphabet used in Scandinavia from the 3rd century to the Middle Ages.; "each rune had its own magical significance"