TO BRISTLE UP

  

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TO BRISTLE UP

Definition: TO BRISTLE UP

TO BRISTLE UP

1. To show anger or defiance.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Crosswords: TO BRISTLE UP

English words defined with "TO BRISTLE UP": To brustle up, To sprunt up. (references)

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Modern Translation: TO BRISTLE UP

Language Translations for "TO BRISTLE UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

megmakacsolja magát (to balk, to cut up rusty, to jib, to show obstinacy, to turn rusty), felborzolja a tollát, felborzolódik (to ruffle), felborzol (bristle, ruffle, to bristle, to fluff, to rough up, to ruffle), ellenszegül (contravene, counteract, resist, to antagonize, to buck, to buck against, to contravene, to defy, to take the bit between one's teeth, to take the bit in one's teeth, withstand), dühbe gurul (blow one's top, bristle, cut up rough, fly into a rage, get angry, have one's shirt out, see red, to blaze up, to cut up rough, to fall into rage, to flame up, to fly into a passion, to fly into a rage, to fly into a tantrum, to fly off the handle, to get into a rage, to get into a tantrum, to get waxy, to go blind with rage, to go into a tantrum, to go off the deep end, to go off the handle, to go off the hooks, to grow savage, to lose one's hair), égnek áll (to stick straight up). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay istlebray upay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO BRISTLE UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-i-l-o-p-r-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: librettos, portliest, poultries, proustite.

-3 letters: blotters, blottier, blousier, bottlers, brittles, burliest, libretto, outliers, outslept, outspelt, outstrip, perilous, plotters, plottier, plotties, poitrels, politest, poulters, poutiest, preboils, puttiers, roupiest, sluttier, splitter, splutter, spottier, strobile, subtiler, subtitle, tributes, triolets, triplets, troubles.

-4 letters: bettors, bistort, bitters, blister, blotter, bluster, boilers, boletus, bolster, bolters, bottler, bottles, bristle, bristol.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-i-l-o-p-r-s-t-t-u"
 

+3 letters: subproletariat.

 

+4 letters: streptobacillus, subproletariats, subreptitiously.

 

+5 letters: corruptibilities, supportabilities.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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