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Adjective
/ˈbrislē/,
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(of hair or foliage) Having a stiff and prickly texture,
  1. (of hair or foliage) Having a stiff and prickly texture

  2. Covered with short stiff hairs
    • - he rubbed his bristly chin
  1. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
  2. barbed: 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"
  3. (bristliness) prickliness: the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines
  4. covered with bristles
  5. (BRIS-lee) -- With stiff hairs.
  6. short stiff hair; react angrily
  7. (adj.): stiff and prickly