Definition of Bristly

Adjective

  • 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"
  • 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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Unscramble bristly

61 unscramble word found using the letters bristly.

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