English-Thai Dictionary

bristly

ADJ ฉุนเฉียว  โกรธ เร็ว  โกรธ ง่าย  chun-chiao

 

bristly

ADJ มี หนาม แหลม  stubbly glabrous mee-nam-laem

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BRISTLY

a.bris'ly. Thick set with bristles, or with hairs like bristles; rough.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BRISTLY

BRISTLY Bris "tly, a.

 

Defn: THick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. Bacon.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

bristly

bris tly |ˈbrislē ˈbrɪsli | ▶adjective (of hair or foliage ) having a stiff and prickly texture. • covered with short stiff hairs: he rubbed his bristly chin.

 

bristly sarsaparilla

bris tly sar sa pa ril la ▶noun see aralia.

 

Oxford Dictionary

bristly

bris ¦tly |ˈbrɪsli | ▶adjective (of hair or foliage ) having a stiff and prickly texture. • covered with short, stiff hairs: he rubbed his bristly chin.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

bristly

bristly adjective 1 bristly little bushes: prickly, spiky, thorny, scratchy, brambly. 2 the bristly skin of his cheek: stubbly, hairy, fuzzy, unshaven, whiskered, whiskery; scratchy, rough, coarse, prickly; Biology setaceous, hispid. ANTONYMS smooth. WORD NOTE setaceous From the Latin saeta meaning "bristle, " we derive this late-eighteenth-century term in its jocular form: "bristly, unshaven. " For ambitious novelists only, probably, but acceptance is all in the frequency for these types of slightly pompous Latinate terms. Think of cornucopia! — ZS Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

bristly

bristly adjective 1 the dunes were dotted with bristly little bushes: prickly, spiky, spiked, thorny, scratchy, stiff; briary, brambly. 2 the bristly skin of his cheek: stubbly, hairy, scratchy, fuzzy, unshaven; whiskered, whiskery, bewhiskered, bearded, hirsute; rough, coarse, prickly; technical hispid. ANTONYMS smooth, clean-shaven.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

bristly

bris tly /brɪ́s (ə )li /形容詞 〈頭髪が 〉ごわごわした ; ひげだらけの, 毛の生えた ; 怒りっぽい .