bristly

Meanings

Adjective Satellite

• very irritable
  • "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"
• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
  • "a horse with a short bristly mane"
  • "bristly shrubs"

Adj

• Covered with bristles.
• Easily antagonized; irascible; prone to bristling.

Synonyms

barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, splenetic, thorny, waspish