bristly

bristly has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• a.. Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough.
• a.. 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"
• a.. very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"