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Bristling vs Brisling - What's the difference?

bristling | brisling |

As nouns the difference between bristling and brisling

is that bristling is the act of one who bristles while brisling is a sprat (small herring.

As an adjective bristling

is having bristles.

As a verb bristling

is present participle of lang=en.

bristling

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having bristles.
  • Showing anger.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Tottenham had hoped to make a statement of real intent against the title pace-setters and while manager Harry Redknapp did not secure the victory he craved, he at least saw his side match United every stride of the way in a game that fizzled out after a bristling start. }}

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who bristles.
  • * 1906 , Jack London, White Fang
    • When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings. But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.

    brisling

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A sprat (small herring)
    • ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Noun

    (nb-noun-m1)
  • the European sprat or (l) (genus Sprattus sprattus)

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