bristly

bristly
    adj 1: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White
           House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful";
           "witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: {bristly},
           {prickly}, {splenetic}, {waspish}]
    2: 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" [syn:
       {barbed}, {barbellate}, {briary}, {briery}, {bristled},
       {bristly}, {burred}, {burry}, {prickly}, {setose},
       {setaceous}, {spiny}, {thorny}]
    

Bristly \Bris"tly\, a.
   Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles;
   rough.
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         The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly.
                                                  --Bacon.
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41 Moby Thesaurus words for "bristly":
      acanaceous, aculeolate, barbellate, brambly, briery, bristled,
      bristling, bushy, cirrose, fleecy, flocculent, furry, fuzzy,
      glochidiate, hairy, hirsute, hispid, lanate, matted, muricate,
      pilose, pricking, prickly, pricky, pubescent, setaceous, setose,
      setous, shagged, shaggy, stinging, strigal, strigate, strigose,
      stubbled, stubbly, studded, thistly, thorny, unshorn, woolly