bristly

Adj.	1.	bristly - very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues" prickly, waspish, splenetic ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition; "an ill-natured disagreeable old man"
	2.	bristly - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny, prickly, barbed armed - used of plants and animals

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