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单词 bristly
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bristly

He had strong black eyebrows which you would have thought would meet in the middle but didn't, and a thick bristly moustache.You had to tread carefully with all river men, they were a bristly lot.Vince the Vile Smollett was young, stocky, and boasted a bristly brown mustache.
(adjective) 
a plant with bristly pale stems and hairy toothed leaves
Synonyms
prickly
The grass was prickly and damp.
barbed
The factory was surrounded by barbed wire.
thorny
thorny hawthorn trees
spiny
low spiny bushes of sage
brambly
briery
(adjective) 
He lifted a beer to his bristly mouth.
Synonyms
hairy
They saw a massive, hairy animal at the window.
rough
people who looked rough and stubbly
bearded
a bearded 40-year-old sociology professor
whiskered
stubbly
unshaven
bewhiskered

Additional synonyms

in the sense of barbed
The factory was surrounded by barbed wire.
Synonyms
spiked,
pointed,
toothed,
hooked,
notched,
prickly,
jagged,
thorny,
pronged,
spiny,
snaggy
in the sense of bearded
a bearded 40-year-old sociology professor
Synonyms
unshaven,
hairy,
whiskered,
stubbly,
bushy,
shaggy,
hirsute (formal),
bristly,
bewhiskered
in the sense of rough
people who looked rough and stubbly
Synonyms
coarse,
disordered,
tangled,
hairy,
fuzzy,
bushy,
shaggy,
dishevelled,
uncut,
unshaven,
tousled,
bristly,
unshorn

Nearby words of
bristly

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  • Britain
  • Briton
  • brittle

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