bristly

Meanings

• very irritable;
• "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"
• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.;
• "a horse with a short bristly mane"
• "bristly shrubs"
• BRISTLY adj -TLIER, -TLIEST stiffly erect

Synonyms

• prickly
• splenetic
• waspish
• barbed
• barbellate
• briary
• briery
• bristled
• burred
• burry
• setose
• setaceous
• spiny
• thorny

Scrabble Score: 12

bristly is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

bristly is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

bristly is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

bristly is a valid Words With Friends word

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