Bristle vs Griddle - What's the difference?
bristle | griddle |
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
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, title= To fix a bristle to.
A flat plate of metal used for cooking.
*1871 , Louisa May Alcott, :
*:Such a clatter as the little spoon made, and such a beating as the batter got, it quite foamed, I assure you; and when Daisy poured some on to the griddle , it rose like magic into a puffy flapjack that made Demi's mouth water.
*1894 , Lance Rawson, :
*:Some people when making scones do not trouble to light the oven but use the frying pan: of course if you have a griddle it is better than oven or pan, but very few people possess this useful utensil.
To use a griddle, to cook on a griddle.
As a proper noun bristle
is (slang|humorous) bristol, england (in imitation of the local dialect).As a noun griddle is
a flat plate of metal used for cooking.As a verb griddle is
to use a griddle, to cook on a griddle.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