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Pricky vs Bricky - What's the difference?

pricky | bricky |

As adjectives the difference between pricky and bricky

is that pricky is stiff and sharp; prickly while bricky is covered with brick.

As a noun bricky is

(slang) a bricklayer.

pricky

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Stiff and sharp; prickly.
    • (Holland)
    (Webster 1913)

    bricky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered with brick.
  • Similar to brick in texture, colour, shape, etc.
  • * 1989 , James Woodress, Willa Cather: A Literary Life (page 55)
    • His face was a dark, bricky red, deeply creased rather than wrinkled, and the skin was like loose leather over his neckband

    Noun

    (brickies)
  • (slang) A bricklayer.

    • Synonyms

    * brickie