bristly English

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bristly

— adjective (= prickly, waspish) very irritable bristly exchanges between the White House and the press he became prickly and spiteful witty and waspish about his colleagues

— adjective (= barbed, burred, setaceous) 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

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bristly English » English

prickly

setaceous

stubbly

setose

untidy

thorny

standing on end

bristling

bristled

barbed

waspish

uneven

splenetic

spiny

rough

hirsute

burry

burred

briery

briary

barbellate

wiry

unrefined

tweedy

trenchant

tough

stubble-covered

strident

slubbed

shrill

sharp

shaggy

pointed

nubby

nubbly

nipping

mordant

mordacious

knotty

knotted

keen

jagged

irascible

horrent

homespun

hispid

harsh

hairry

gruff

gnarled