bristly
pronunciation
How to pronounce bristly in British English:
UK [ˈbrɪsli]
How to pronounce bristly in American English:
US [ˈbrɪsli]
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- Adjective:
- very irritable
- having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Word Origin
- bristly (adj.)
- 1590s, from bristle (n.) + -y (2). Figurative sense is recorded from 1872. Related: Bristliness.
Example
- 1. Common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areas .
- 2. Branchlets densely bristly and glandular bristly .
- 3. Leaves pilose or minutely bristly adaxially .
- 4. Family of bristly hairy sometimes climbing plants ; america and africa and southern arabia .
- 5. Genus of bristly herbs or subshrubs of western america lacking stinging hairs .