Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bristly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bristly \Bris"tly\, a.
Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles;
rough.
The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly.
--Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bristly
adj 1: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House
and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful";
"witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: {prickly},
{splenetic}, {waspish}]
2: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines
or thorns etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane";
"bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits" [syn: {barbed}, {barbellate},
{briary}, {briery}, {bristled}, {burred}, {burry}, {prickly},
{spiny}, {thorny}]
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