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bristly

English

  1. 🔊 very irritable
    “bristly exchanges between the White House and the press”
  2. 🔊 having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
    “a horse with a short bristly mane”

Similar words

barbed barbellate briary briery bristled burred burry prickly setose setaceous spiny thorny prickly splenetic waspish acanaceous aculeolate barbellate brambly briery bristled bristling bushy cirrose