'Bristly' definitions:

Definition of 'bristly'

adjective

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]

adjective

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]

Definition of 'Bristly'

From: GCIDE

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]

Synonyms of 'bristly'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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

Words containing 'Bristly'

bristly locust,
bristly oxtongue,
bristly sarsaparilla,
bristly sarsparilla,
bristly prickly snappish splenetic waspish