About The Word Bristly
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Bristly
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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 See Also | 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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