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bristly

DEFINITIONS OF: bristly

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adj having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

“a horse with a short bristly mane”
“bristly shrubs”
Synonyms:
barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny
armed
(used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns

adj very irritable

“bristly exchanges between the White House and the press”
Synonyms:
prickly, splenetic, waspish
ill-natured
having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
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