bristle : Idioms & Phrases

• verb show anger or indignation
  bridle up; bristle at; bridle at.
  
  • She bristled at his insolent remarks

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• noun a brush that is made with the short stiff hairs of an animal or plant
  

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• noun any fern of the genus Trichomanes having large pinnatifid often translucent fronds; most are epiphytic on tree branches and twigs or terrestrial on mossy banks
  filmy fern.
  

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• noun grasses of grasslands and woodlands having large gracefully arching spikes with long bristles beneath each spikelet
  bristlegrass.
  

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• verb show anger or indignation
  bridle up; bristle at; bridle at.
  
  • She bristled at his insolent remarks

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• adjective satellite pointed like bristles
  

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Bris"tle-point`ed adjective

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1. (Bot.) Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves.

Webster 1913

Bris"tle-shaped` adjective

Definitions

1. Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.

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• noun a variety of bristle fern
  Trichomanes boschianum.
  

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• to show anger or deflance.

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• noun common weedy and bristly grass found in nearly all temperate areas
  glaucous bristlegrass; yellow bristlegrass; yellow foxtail; Setaria glauca.
  

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