Bristly

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Consisting of or similar to bristles.
  • adjective. Thick with bristles.
  • adjective. Exhibiting or tending to exhibit agitation or anger.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Thickly set with bristles, or with hairs like bristles; rough: as, “a bristly neck,”
  • Resembling a bristle or bristles.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Covered with bristles.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. very irritable
  • adjective. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
  • Word Usage
    "It was a startling assembly, not the least because with a few faintly yellow exceptions, the vroqupii were clad in short, bristly, rose-hued fur."
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