About The Word Bristly

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Bristly

Bristly Meaning & Definition
Bristly Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bristly?

[adj] having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"
[adj] very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Bristly: armed | barbed | barbellate | briary | briery | bristled | burred | burry | ill-natured | prickly | spiny | splenetic | thorny | waspish

Related Terms | Find terms related to Bristly: acanaceous | aculeolate | barbellate | brambly | briery | bristled | bristling | bushy | cirrose | fleecy | flocculent | furry | fuzzy | glochidiate | hairy | hirsute | hispid | lanate | matted | muricate | pilose | pricking | prickly | pricky | pubescent | setaceous | setose | setous | shagged | shaggy | stinging | strigal | strigate | strigose | stubbled | stubbly | studded | thistly | thorny | unshorn | woolly

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Bristly In Webster's Dictionary

\Bris"tly\, a. Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. --Bacon.

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