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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. very irritable;
- Example: "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"
- Example: "he became prickly and spiteful"
- Example: "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.;
- Example: "a horse with a short bristly mane"
- Example: "bristly shrubs"
- Example: "burred fruits"
- Example: "setaceous whiskers"
[syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]



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]


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]


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