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for bristly
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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) 3.0 (2006) :
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: bristly,
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,
bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose,
setaceous, spiny, thorny]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
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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