bristly

adj. stubbly; irritable; having bristles

Adjective
1. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
(synonym) prickly, splenetic, waspish
(similar) ill-natured
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"
(synonym) barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny
(similar) armed

(a.)
Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
  

Synonyms and related words:
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
  

bristly /'brisli/
tính từ đầy lông cứng như lông cứng, tua tủa, lởm chởm, dựng đứngbristly hair: lông dựng đứng; tóc lởm chởma bristly unshaven chin: cằm chưa cạo râu lởm chởm
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