Bristle vs. Bristly
Difference Between Bristle and Bristly
Bristle➦
A bristle is a stiff hair or feather (natural or artificial), either on an animal, such as a pig, a plant, or on a tool such as a brush or broom.
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Consisting of or similar to bristles.
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A stiff hair.
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Bristly➦
Thick with bristles.
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A stiff hairlike structure
the bristles of a wire brush.
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Bristly➦
Exhibiting or tending to exhibit agitation or anger
a bristly exchange between lawyers.
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To stand stiffly on end like bristles
The hair on the dog's neck bristled.
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Covered with bristles.
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To raise the bristles
The cat bristled at the sight of the large dog.
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Easily antagonized; irascible; prone to bristling.
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To react in an angry or offended manner
The author bristled at the suggestion of plagiarism.
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Bristly➦
Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly.
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To be covered or thick with or as if with bristles
The path bristled with thorns.
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very irritable;
bristly exchanges between the White House and the press
he became prickly and spiteful
witty and waspish about his colleagues
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To cause to stand erect like bristles; stiffen.
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Bristly➦
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
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Bristle➦
To furnish or supply with bristles.
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Bristle➦
To make bristly; ruffle.
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Bristle➦
A stiff or coarse hair, usually and especially on a nonhuman mammal.
the bristles of a pig
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Bristle➦
A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
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Bristle➦
The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.
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To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
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To abound, to have an abundance of something, especially something jutting out.
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Bristle➦
(with at) To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
The employees bristled at the prospect of working through the holidays.
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Bristle➦
To fix a bristle to.
to bristle a thread
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Bristle➦
A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
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Bristle➦
A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
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Bristle➦
To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; - sometimes with up.
Now for the bare-picked bone of majestyDoth dogged war bristle his angry crest.
Boy, bristle thy courage up.
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Bristle➦
To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
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To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
His hair did bristle upon his head.
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To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
The hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets.
Ports bristling with thousands of masts.
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To show defiance or indignation.
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a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic
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Bristle➦
a stiff hair
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Bristle➦
be in a state of movement or action;
The room abounded with screaming children
The garden bristled with toddlers
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rise up as in fear;
The dog's fur bristled
It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!
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