bristly
    adj 1: very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White
           House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful";
           "witty and waspish about his colleagues" [syn: bristly,
           prickly, splenetic, waspish]
    2: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines
       or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane";
       "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn:
       barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled,
       bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose,
       setaceous, spiny, thorny]

Bristly \Bris"tly\, a.
   Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles;
   rough.
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         The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly.
                                                  --Bacon.
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