| 单词 | bristly |
| 释义 | bristly (once / 10582 pages) adj Bristly things are spiky or barbed, like a porcupine. When you get an old-fashioned shoe shine, your shoes will be cleaned with a bristly brush. You can describe a certain type of hair as bristly — if it sticks up in tufts and spikes like a hedgehog's quills. A man's beard stubble is bristly too, and so are spiky bushes and scruffy dogs. Figuratively, if you're bristly, you're cranky and easily irritated: "He spoke carefully, trying not to upset his bristly grandfather." WORD FAMILYbristly: bristliness+/bristle: bristled, bristlelike, bristles, bristling, bristly USAGE EXAMPLESThe one with the slightly shorter, golden bristly whiskers. Seattle Times(Dec 16, 2016) When we finally got together, I expected her to look bristly headed and traumatized, like Dustin Hoffman in “Papillon.” New York Times(Oct 17, 2016) One bristly patron popped in from the cold with his visiting mother and her Irish terrier. Seattle Times(Oct 19, 2016) 1adj having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. a horse with a short bristly mane bristly shrubs Syn barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny armed (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns 2adj very irritable bristly exchanges between the White House and the press Syn prickly, splenetic, waspish ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
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