bristle

noun · verbB1

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noun

Plural noun:

bristles

1.
A stiff or coarse hair on a nonhuman mammal or on a plant.
the bristles of a pig
2.
A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
3.
The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.

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verb

V_es/s

bristles

V_ing/Gerund

bristling

V_ed/pp

bristled

1.
(intransitive)To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
His hair began to bristle with anger when the subject was mentioned.
The cat’s fur bristled when the dog approached.
The soldier’s body would bristle with tension before a battle.
2.
(intransitive, usually)(intransitive, usually with with) To abound, to be covered with, or to have an abundance of, something, especially something jutting out.
3.
(intransitive, usually)(intransitive, usually with at or with) To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
The employees bristled at the prospect of working through the holidays.
4.
(archaic, obsolete, transitive)(transitive, now rare or obsolete) To make (something) rise or stand erect, like bristles.
5.
(transitive, uncommon)To cause (someone) to be on one's guard or raise one's defenses.
Your blatant attitude always bristles me.
6.
(rare)To fix a bristle or bristles to.
to bristle a thread
For quotations using this term, see Citations:bristle.

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From Middle English bristil, bristel, brustel, from Old English bristl, byrst, *brystl, *byrstel, from *burstilu, diminutive of *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (compare borstel, Borste, burst), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís (compare brostaid, fastīgium, barszcz).