bristly

[Bris·tly]

Bristly things are spiky or barbed, like a porcupine. When you get an old fashioned shoe shine, your shoes will be cleaned with a bristly brush.

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THick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.

Adjective S.
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

Adjective S.
very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"


a.
Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.


Bristly

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

THick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.

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