horrĭdŭlus, a, um, adj. dim. [horridus], standing up, projecting forth, protuberant; rough, rugged, rude.
I Lit.: papillae, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 66: caput ungunt horridulum, Lucil. ap. Non. 423, 1: puer, Mart. 10, 98, 9: comes, shabby , poor , Pers. 1, 54. —
II Trop., of discourse or style, rude , rough , unpolished , simple , unadorned : tua illa horridula mihi atque incomta visa sunt, Cic. Att. 2, 1, 1: orationes Catonis, id. Or. 45, 152: horridula ejus verba et rudia flosculos Tullianos appellans, Amm. 29, 1, 11.