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bristliness

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bris⋅tly

  [bris-lee]
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–adjective, -tli⋅er, -tli⋅est.
1. covered or rough with bristles.
2. like or resembling bristles.
3. easily antagonized; irascible: a bristly person with few friends.
Origin:
1585–95; bristle + -y 1

Related forms:
bris⋅tli⋅ness, noun
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bristliness

noun
the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines [syn: prickliness] 
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