bristly

/bɹˈɪstli/

[adjective]

bristly

[ADJECTIVE]

Having stiff, short, and coarse hairs or bristles growing closely together

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

synonyms : barbed

very irritable

synonyms : prickly

splenetic

waspish

Examples

1. It's so bristly.

2. He's ruddy, he's pitted, he's bristly.

3. Number 3 Southern Cassowary Southern cassowaries have bristly black plumage, a blue face and neck and a horn-like brown casque atop their heads measuring up to 7 inches and is partly reminiscent of dinosaurs.

4. I went for whiskers because vibrissae, bristly, sounds like a bristle.