prickly vs smelly

prickly

adj
  • Easily irritated. 

  • Covered with sharp points. 

  • Difficult; complicated; hairy or thorny. 

noun
  • Something that gives a pricking sensation; a sharp object. 

adv
  • In a prickly manner. 

smelly

adj
  • Having a bad smell. 

  • Having signs that suggest a design problem; having a code smell. 

  • Having a quality that arouses suspicion. 

noun
  • a Short Magazine Lee Enfield rifle or one of its derivatives. 

How often have the words prickly and smelly occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )