BRISTLY

• (adj.) 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"

  synonyms : barbed , barbellate , briary , briery , bristled , burred , burry , prickly , setaceous , setose , spiny , thorny

• (adj.) very irritable

  "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press", "he became prickly and spiteful", "witty and waspish about his colleagues"

  synonyms : prickly , splenetic , waspish

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