Bristly

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bristly \Bris"tly\, a.
     Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles;
     rough.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly.


                                                    --Bacon.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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 or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly
          mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous
          whiskers" [syn: {barbed}, {barbellate}, {briary}, {briery},
           {bristled}, {burred}, {burry}, {prickly}, {setose}, {setaceous},
           {spiny}, {thorny}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "bristly":
     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