bristly (redirected from bristliest)

bris·tly  (brsl)

adj. bris·tli·er, bris·tli·est

1.

a. Consisting of or similar to bristles.

b. Thick with bristles.

2. Exhibiting or tending to exhibit agitation or anger: a bristly exchange between lawyers.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	bristly - very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" prickly, waspish, splenetic ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
	2.	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" barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny, prickly, barbed armed - (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns

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bristly

adjective

1. prickly, barbed, thorny, spiny, brambly, briery a plant with bristly pale stems and hairy toothed leaves

2. hairy, rough, bearded, whiskered, stubbly, unshaven, bewhiskered He lifted a beer to his bristly mouth.

Translations

bristly [ˈbrɪslɪ] ADJ (bristlier (compar) (bristliest (superl))) [beard, hair] → erizado
to have a bristly chin → tener la barba crecida

bristly [ˈbrɪsli] adj [beard, hair] → hérissé(e)
Your chin's all bristly
BUT Ton menton pique.

bristly

adj (+er) animal → borstig; chin → Stoppel-, stoppelig; hair, beard → borstig

bristly [ˈbrɪslɪ] adj (chin) → ispido/a; (beard, hair) → irsuto/a, ispido/a