Woolly vs Bristled - What's the difference?
woolly | bristled | Related terms |
Made of wool.
Having a thick, soft texture, as if made of wool.
(figuratively) Of thinking, principles, etc, based on emotion rather than logic.
(figuratively) Unclear, fuzzy, hazy, cloudy.
(obsolete) Clothed in wool.
* Shakespeare
(informal) A sweater or similar garment made of wool
(Liverpool, pejorative) Someone not born in Liverpool (especially from the towns of Wigan, St Helen's, Widnes, Warrington and Runcorn).
(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
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Woolly is a related term of bristled.
As an adjective woolly
is made of wool.As a noun woolly
is (informal) a sweater or similar garment made of wool or woolly can be (liverpool|pejorative) someone not born in liverpool (especially from the towns of wigan, st helen's, widnes, warrington and runcorn).As a verb bristled is
(bristle).woolly
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Alternative forms
* woolyEtymology 1
From .Adjective
(er)- Put on a woolly jumper and turn down the thermostat.
- woolly hair
- That's the sort of woolly thinking that causes wars to start.
- woolly breeders
Derived terms
* woolly hat * woolly-headed, wooly-headed * woolly-minded (British) and (US), wooly-minded (US)Noun
(woollies)Etymology 2
From (woolyback).Noun
(woollies)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