Bristle

Definition: Bristle

Bristle

Noun

1. A stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic.

2. A stiff hair.

Verb

1. Be in a state of movement or action; "The room abounded with screaming children"; "The garden bristled with toddlers".

2. Rise up; of animals fur or hair; as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bristle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Synonyms: Bristle

Convexity

Verb: be prominent; Adjective: project, bulge, protrude, pout, bouge, bunch; jut out, stand out, stick out, poke out; stick up, bristle up, start up, shoot up; swell over, hang over, bend over; beetle.

Redundancy

Verb: superabound, overabound; know no bounds, swarm; meet one at every turn; creep with, crawl with, bristle with; overflow; run over, flow over, well over, brim over; run riot; overrun, overstock, overlay, overcharge, overdose, overfeed, overburden, overload, overdo, overwhelm, overshoot the mark; (go beyond); surcharge, supersaturate, gorge, glut, load, drench, whelm, inundate, deluge, flood; drug, drug the market; hepatize.

Resentment

Fly into a rage, fall into a rage, get into a rage, fly into a passion; bridle up, bristle up, froth up, fire up, flare up; open the vials of one's wrath, pour out the vials of one's wrath.

Sharpness

Verb: be sharp; Adjective: taper to a point; bristle with.

Point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum; needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca.

Sufficiency

Abound, exuberate, teem, flow, stream, rain, shower down; pour, pour in; swarm; bristle with; superabound.

Crosswords: Bristle

Bristle Face (1964)

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

Books

• Bristle Face (reference)

• The bristle cone pine & other poems (reference)

• The Bristle Path (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• Lentek Metal Bristle Brush Head for Waterless Pet Bath Brushes (reference)

• EZ Paintr 50010 Bristle Chip Brush (reference)

• Wooster Brush Z1294-2 2" Ohio Trimmer China Bristle Angle Sash Brush (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Bristle Thighed Curlew. Credit: Bob Hines.

... functional façades bristle with bamboo rods hung with brightly coloured clean linen. / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by T. Takahara..

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

The sun made his white bristle beard shine

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Very soft bristle toothbrushes should be used. If you prefer a Toothette (a spongy swab), discard it after use. Water jet devices or dental floss should not be used when blood counts are low and your child is prone to infection. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "bristle": boar's bristle ♦ bristle at ♦ bristle brush ♦ bristle fern ♦ bristle grass ♦ bristle up ♦ bristle with ♦ To bristle up ♦ yellow bristle grass. Additional references.

Beginning with "bristle": bristle-backed, bristle-bearded, bristle-brushed, bristle-cone, bristle-headed, bristle-like, bristle-moustached, Bristle-pointed, Bristle-shaped, bristle-stippled, bristle-tempered, bristle-tufted, bristle-workers.

Ending with "bristle": brush-bristle, nylon-bristle.

Albanian

tërbohem (be enraged, grow rabid, rage, ramp, rampage), qime e fortë, ngrihet (flow, harden, heave, lift off). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فرشة من نيلون, ‏وقف (bait, carry, cessation, check, come to a halt, devote, discontinuation, disposal, get up, halt, pause, pull up, refraining, rise, severance, stand, stand up, stasis, stood, stoppage, stopping), ‏تسمر الشعر (hair raising), ‏جعله ينتصب, ‏إنتصب بخشونة, ‏إتخذ موقف معاديا, ‏أوقف شعره بخشونة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

четина (hair, Seta), козина (coat, fell, fur, furring, hair, jacket, pelage), настръхвам (prick), наежвам се (stiffen), мъх (down, fluff, fuzz, moss, nap, pile, pubescence). (various references)

Chinese 

剛毛 , 刺毛. (various references)

Czech

strnisko (stubble), rozhnìvat se (become angry, get cross), naježit se, ježit se, štìtiny, štìtina. (various references)

Danish

stikkelhaar (kemp), doedhaar (kemp). (various references)

Dutch

overeind gaan staan. (various references)

Esperanto

hirti. (various references)

Farsi 

موی سیخ , موی زبر, موی خوک , سیخ شدن , اماده جنگ شدن , رویه تجاوزکارانه داشتن . (various references)

Finnish

harjas. (various references)

French

soie, s'hérisser, prendre une position hostile, poil, jarre, faire hérisser, crin. (various references)

German

borste (hair). (various references)

Greek 

γουρουνότριχα, ανατριχιάζω (be shivering, creep, shiver, shudder, thrill), τρίχα χοίρου, τρίχα (hair), ορθώνω τις τρίχες, ορθούμαι ωσ οι τρίχεσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"סתמר, לסמור (fasten, nail, stiffen). (various references)

Hungarian

sörte (hair). (various references)

Indonesian

bulu (body hair, feather, fur). (various references)

Italian

setola (hair). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

剛毛. (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"うもう. (various references)

Manx

frioggan (barb, beard, beard of hook, dander, fin, offence, offend), caulg (barb, beard of barley, prickle, testiness, truculence). (various references)

Pig Latin

istlebray.(various references)

Portuguese

cerda (seta). (various references)

Romanian

se zbârli (set up one's bristles), se burzului, sãri muştarul, pãr (hair, head, lock, pear, pear tree, pile, pilosity), ţeapã (goad, pale, quill, sliver, spine, splinter, thorn). (various references)

Russian 

щетина (hair, stubble), ощетиниться, подняться дыбом, изобиловать;щетиниться. (various references)

Scottish

calg (awn, beard of corn, prickle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prirodna dlaka, narogušiti se, nakostrešiti se, čekinja (seta). (various references)

Spanish

cerda (boar's bristle, sow). (various references)

Swedish

vara full av, borst (hackle). (various references)

Turkish

sert kıl, kıl (as cool as cucumber, hair, hairy, Moody, trichome), domuz kılı, dolu olmak (abound, be filled with, be full, crawl, spill over with, teem), diken diken olmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

рясніти (abound, over-abound), розгніватися (blaze out, flare up, get angry), щетина (brush, hair, stubble), наїжуватися. (various references)

Welsh

gwrychyn, codi gwrychyn. (various references)

bethseta, horrebunt, horrendas, horrende, horrendi, horrendos, horrendum, horrendus, horruerunt, horruit. (various references)

byrst. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bristle": bristled, bristlelike, bristles, bristletail, bristletails. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bristle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bissle, Boisdale, Boiselle, Boistel, Borislav, bricole, briksdal, brisil, Brisley, brisole, brist, Brister, Britel, britle, britsle, ristle. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: blister, riblets.

-1 letter: bestir, birles, bister, bistre, biters, blites, libers, lister, liters, litres, relist, riblet, tilers, tribes.

-2 letters: belts, biers, biles, birle, birls, birse, biter, bites, blest, blets, blite, bries, brits, islet, istle, liber, liers, liter, litre, relit, ribes, riels, riles, rites, slier, stile, tiers, tiler, tiles, tires, tirls, tribe, tries.

-3 letters: bels, belt, best, bets.

+1 letter: blastier, blisters, blistery, blithers, bristled, bristles, brittles, burliest, driblets, filberts, gilberts, librates, strobile, subtiler, timbrels, trilbies.

+2 letters: beastlier, billeters, bleariest, blighters, blistered, blurriest, brawliest, bristlier, brittlest, brutalise, burbliest, butleries, dribblets, herbalist, laborites, liberates, liberties, librettos, limberest, marbliest, rubbliest, strobilae, strobiles, stubblier, thuribles, tilburies, verbalist.

+3 letters: algebraist, bairnliest, belittlers, belletrist, blistering, blueprints, blustering, boilersuit, bolstering, brambliest, briolettes, bristliest, brutalised, brutalises, brutalizes, cabriolets, calibrates, crumbliest, embrittles, filibuster, herbalists, liberalist, liberators, libertines, librettist, litterbags, litterbugs, lobstering, lubricates, potboilers, resistible, rubellites, sailboater, stabilizer, strippable, trembliest, tribulates, trilobites, verbalists, vestibular.