Meaning of BRISTLY
| Pronunciation: | | 'breeslee
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | armed, barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, ill-natured, prickly, spiny, splenetic, thorny, waspish |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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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