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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bristly \Bris"tly\, a. Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. --Bacon. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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: {prickly}, {splenetic}, {waspish}] 2: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits" [syn: {barbed}, {barbellate}, {briary}, {briery}, {bristled}, {burred}, {burry}, {prickly}, {spiny}, {thorny}]
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