bristly

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bristly Definition

• (s) very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
• (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"

bristly Synonyms

• barbed
• barbellate
• briary
• briery
• bristled
• bristly
• burred
• burry
• prickly
• setaceous
• setose
• spiny
• splenetic
• thorny
• waspish