barbed vs spiky

barbed

adj
  • Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic. 

  • Accoutered with defensive armor; barded. 

  • Bearded (also applied to roses, referring to the leaves between the petals). 

  • Having barbs 

spiky

adj
  • hostile; standoffish 

  • Of hair, erect, resembling spikes. 

  • Having spikes, spiny. 

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