Bristle

What do we mean by bristle?

A stiff hair. noun

A stiff hairlike structure. noun

To stand stiffly on end like bristles. intransitive verb

To raise the bristles. intransitive verb

To react in an angry or offended manner. intransitive verb

To be covered or thick with or as if with bristles. intransitive verb

To cause to stand erect like bristles; stiffen. intransitive verb

To furnish or supply with bristles. intransitive verb

To make bristly; ruffle. intransitive verb

To erect the bristles of; erect in anger or defiance, as a hog erects its bristles.

To make bristly.

To fix a bristle on: as, to bristle a shoemaker's thread.

To rise up or stand on end like bristles.

To stand erect and close together like bristles.

To be covered, as with bristles: as, the ranks bristled with spears. See to bristle with, below.

To manifest conspicuously: as, he bristled with excitement.

One of the stiff, coarse, glossy hairs of certain animals, especially those of the hog kind which are not hairless, large and thickly set along the back, and smaller and more scattered on the sides. noun

A similar appendage on some plants; a stiff, sharp hair. noun

In dipterous insects of the division Brachycera, the arista or terminal part of the antenna. noun

In ornithology, a bristly feather; a feather with a stout stiff stem and little or no web. noun

A stiff or coarse hair.

The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.

Words that are spelled similarly to bristle:
bristle, brittle, gristle, bristly, brustle, kristle, abristle.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word bristle:
bristles, setae, toothbrush, coir, brushes, tyrant, diptera, appendages, worms, brush, blasting, arista, worm, elongated, thorax, tips, hairs, bent, stiff, tufts, fibre, snail, grass, feathers, kinetic, abdomen, cleaning, synthetic, metallic, segments, genera, anterior, posterior, hair, pig, fern, vein, tip, chicken, dorsal, cultivated, segment, bird, teeth, flowers, smooth, paint, referring, pairs, wire, endemic, bear, species, spots, boards, bodies, belt, costa, wings, remove, surface, tail, marine, containing, leaves, narrow, genus, skin, divided, broad, yellow, refers, dry, contact, cell, target, animal, dark, long, usually, reference, steel.

Words that rhyme with bristle:
whistle, missile, thistle, epistle, dismissal, istle, missal, bissell, gristle, fissile, missel, entwistle, kissel, antimissile, ballistic missile, milk thistle, sow thistle, guided missile, sissel, tin whistle, blessed thistle, canada thistle, blue thistle, bull thistle, russian thistle, creeping thistle, steam whistle, boar thistle, scotch thistle, antiballistic missile, hisel, judgment of dismissal, woolly thistle, globe thistle, kissell, bisel, brook thistle, intercontinental ballistic missile, musk thistle, european woolly thistle, spear thistle, boat whistle, holy thistle, judgement of dismissal, plume thistle, field thistle, melancholy thistle, nodding thistle, white thistle, horse thistle, factory whistle, golden thistle, cotton thistle, wissel, naval missile, chris hill, chris hull, cissell, euromissile, fissel, fissell, glycel, miss hill, miss hull, schissel, this hill, this ill, tricil.

Adjectives that are often used to describe bristle:
long, short, single, dorsal, small, fine, black, stiff, terminal, sensory, apical, preapical, strong, lateral, distal, slender, natural, medial, bare, stout, posterior, hog, inner, proximal, white, spinous, minute, like, anterior, curved, soft, ventral, median, longer, distinct, outer, thin, thick, ocular, oral, prominent, antepygidial, shorter, orbital, prothoracic, anterodorsal, usual, weak, flat, presutural, subapical, notopleural, straight, longest, gray, dark, basal, yellow, sharp, alar, plumose, posterodorsal, pure, synthetic, costal, humeral, conspicuous, beaded, guarded, marginal, tiny, barbed, erect, pig, abdominal, posthumeral, coarse, vertical, anteroventral, delicate, postalar, subterminal, tipped, slight, finest.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective bristle:
brush, brushes, worms, number, tails, tips, toothbrush, worm, present, grass, fibre, length, end, ends, blocks, formation, pattern, hairs, broom, paintbrush, hair, face, cells, feathers, tufts, numbers, tail, wheel, flowmeter, tip, patterns, fiber, marks, head, coat, pines, pine, board, inheritance, liner, stiffness, probang, mustache, bearing, holes, filbert, toothbrushes, fern, arrangement, clade, hairbrush, texture, organ, score, characters, cell, flat, abnormalities, diameter, factory, shaft, locus, distal, posterior, proximal, dice, phenotype, fan, toothed, flesh, rows, cone, lengths, hardness, artist, brushing, mutants, thighed, differentiation, jaw, stout.

Consonant match to bristle:
brasil, brustle, brussel, brasel, brass oil, brassell, breece hill, bruce hill.

Words that sound like bristle:
bristle, brussel, brustle, brasil, brezel, bresil, bristol, bristles, bissell, bristled, bissel, brazill, brazel, bisel, bursal, brazell, brazil, bustle, brussels, bessel, bussell, brazeal, brittle, brothel, bizzle, basal, brisa, brickle, basle, breazeale, basile, brison, brissy, brickell, brisson, bizzell, bresee, brazile, briseis, brickel, beisel, procell, brasa, bastle, breughel, brusa, presell, bacil, bhosle, brinell, gristle, bracing, perusal, presale, grisel, pursel, pursell, brassing, prissily, prosal, bezel, bezzle, brielle, brain cell, brunel, brunell, brummel, bresson, breza, braswell, bretzel, brucella, brummell, b cell, bracewell, broyhill, braces, basil, barista, basel, abyssal, bazzle, bernal, bazil, bazel, berkel, bracey, birchall, bracy, brasen, birrell, bisa, birdsall, bersa, boxell, bergall, braciole, bermel, berattle, brassen.