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
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