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What does bristly mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word bristly? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Covered with bristles.
  2. Easily antagonized; irascible; prone to bristling.
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Still, it's difficult to imagine these hard, brown things with bristly bottoms pushing out such incredible blooms.
They looked like sunken fat cactuses, as a result of sporadic bristly hairs dotting their bulbous backs.
This was topped up with a bristly white moustache, a ruddy complexion and blue eyes.
He grabbed her hand and brought it to his face to rub her fingers over his bristly cheek.
She looked at me after feeling the bristly hairs brush against her face again.
Mr. Gershwin, a rather catlike man with an intelligent face and bristly whiskers, began.

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