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bristly
adjective
(bris-tly)
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Synonyms:
barbed
,
barbellate
,
briary
,
briery
,
bristled
,
burred
,
burry
,
prickly
,
setaceous
,
setose
,
spiny
,
thorny
,
Examples:
A horse with a short bristly mane.
Bristly shrubs.
bristly
adjective
(bris-tly)
very irritable
Synonyms:
prickly
,
splenetic
,
waspish
,
Examples:
Bristly exchanges between the White House and the press.
Words Related to
bristly
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prickly
,
spiny
,
briary
,
waspish
,
barbed
,
burred
,
thorny
,
splenetic
,
bristled
,
armed
,
burry
,
briery
,
barbellate
,
ill-natured
,
setal
,
setose
,
spiky
,
shaggy
,
hairy
,
bushy
,
stubbly
,
scraggly
,
wiry
,
hirsute
,
leathery
,
straggly
,
fleshy
,
hairlike
,
whiskery
,
scraggy
,
curly
,
gruff
,
stringy
,
uncombed
,
stalky
,
bewhiskered
,
sandpapery
,
lank
,
featherlike
,
dwarfish
,
knobby
,
stumpy
,
wispy
,
aquiline
,
roundish
,
blondish
,
jowly
,
leonine
,
recurved
,
striated
,
squatty
,
frowny
,
whorled
,
gnarled
,
fernlike
,
bladelike
,
leaflike
,
warty
,
lumpish
,
crosshatched
,
goatish
,
papery
,
knobbly
,
flaxen
,
wormlike
,
ocotillo
,
snarly
,
scraggily
,
cheeked
,
squinty
,
elfin
,
reedy
,
spectacled
,
jellylike
,
plumaged
,
gnomish
,
pungent
,
brambly
,
toothy
,
cottony
,
imperturbable
,
darkish
,
bulgy
,
snakelike
,
smirky
,
hooved
,
scalelike
,
freckly
,
pouchy
,
upswept
,
ornery
,
loamy
,
browed
,
pugnacious
,
thorned
,
puffball
,
chubby
,
tousle
,
craggy
,
cherubic
,
bristly
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