bristly
\bris"tly\ (&?;), a. thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. the leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly.
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 etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, spiny, thorny]
similar words(2)
SETOLOSO. ISPIDO. IRSUTO