Bristled vs Prickly - What's the difference?
bristled | prickly | Related terms |
(bristle)
A stiff or coarse hair.
The hair or straws that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.
To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
* Sir Walter Scott
To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
* Thackeray
* Macaulay
To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To fix a bristle to.
Covered with sharp points.
Easily irritated.
difficult, hairy, complicated
Bristled is a related term of prickly.
As a verb bristled
is (bristle).As an adjective prickly is
covered with sharp points.bristled
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*bristle
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
*Verb
(bristl)- His hair did bristle upon his head.
- the hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets
- ports bristling with thousands of masts
- Now for the bare-picked bone of majesty / Doth dogged war bristle his angry crest.
Engineers of a different kind, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
- to bristle a thread
Derived terms
* bristlingAnagrams
* *prickly
English
Adjective
(er)- Prickly pear is a cactus, you have to peel it before eating it to remove the spines and the tough skin.
- He has a prickly personality. He doesn't get along with people because he is easily set off.