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bris·tle

(brĭs′əl)

1. A stiff hair.

2. A stiff hairlike structure:the bristles of a wire brush.

v.bris·tled,bris·tling,bris·tles

v.intr.

1. To stand stiffly on end like bristles:The hair on the dog's neck bristled.

2. To raise the bristles:The cat bristled at the sight of the large dog.

3. To react in an angry or offended manner:The author bristled at the suggestion of plagiarism.

4. To be covered or thick with or as if with bristles:The path bristled with thorns.

v.tr.

1. To cause to stand erect like bristles; stiffen.

2. To furnish or supply with bristles.

3. To make bristly; ruffle.

[Middle Englishbristel, probably from Old English*byrstel, frombyrst,bristle.]

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bristle

(ˈbrɪsəl)

1. (Biology) any short stiff hair of an animal or plant

2.something resembling these hairs:toothbrush bristle.

3. (when:intr, often foll by up) to stand up or cause to stand up like bristles:the angry cat's fur bristled.

4. (sometimes foll by:up) to show anger, indignation, etc:she bristled at the suggestion.

5. (intr) to be thickly covered or set:the target bristled with arrows.

6. (intr) to be in a state of agitation or movement:the office was bristling with activity.

7. (tr) to provide with a bristle or bristles

[C13bristil,brustel, from earlierbrust, from Old Englishbyrst; related to Old Norseburst, Old High Germanborst]

ˈbristlyadj

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bris•tle

(ˈbrɪs əl)

n.,v.-tled, -tling.n.

1. one of the short, stiff, coarse hairs of certain animals, esp. hogs, used in making brushes.

2. anything resembling these hairs.

v.i.

3. to stand or rise stiffly, like bristles.

4. to erect the bristles, as an irritated animal.

5. to become rigid with anger or irritation.

6. to be thickly set with something suggestive of bristles: The plain bristled with bayonets.

v.t.

7. to erect like bristles.

8. to furnish with bristles.

9. to make bristly.

[before 1000; Middle Englishbristel]

bris′tle•less,adj.

bris′tle•like`,adj.

bristle

Past participle:bristled
Gerund:bristling

Imperative
bristle
bristle

Present
I bristle
you bristle
he/she/it bristles
we bristle
you bristle
they bristle

Preterite
I bristled
you bristled
he/she/it bristled
we bristled
you bristled
they bristled

Present Continuous
I am bristling
you are bristling
he/she/it is bristling
we are bristling
you are bristling
they are bristling

Present Perfect
I have bristled
you have bristled
he/she/it has bristled
we have bristled
you have bristled
they have bristled

Past Continuous
I was bristling
you were bristling
he/she/it was bristling
we were bristling
you were bristling
they were bristling

Past Perfect
I had bristled
you had bristled
he/she/it had bristled
we had bristled
you had bristled
they had bristled

Future
I will bristle
you will bristle
he/she/it will bristle
we will bristle
you will bristle
they will bristle

Future Perfect
I will have bristled
you will have bristled
he/she/it will have bristled
we will have bristled
you will have bristled
they will have bristled

Future Continuous
I will be bristling
you will be bristling
he/she/it will be bristling
we will be bristling
you will be bristling
they will be bristling

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been bristling
you have been bristling
he/she/it has been bristling
we have been bristling
you have been bristling
they have been bristling

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been bristling
you will have been bristling
he/she/it will have been bristling
we will have been bristling
you will have been bristling
they will have been bristling

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been bristling
you had been bristling
he/she/it had been bristling
we had been bristling
you had been bristling
they had been bristling

Conditional
I would bristle
you would bristle
he/she/it would bristle
we would bristle
you would bristle
they would bristle

Past Conditional
I would have bristled
you would have bristled
he/she/it would have bristled
we would have bristled
you would have bristled
they would have bristled

Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011

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Noun	1.	bristle - a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic brush - an implement that has hairs or bristles firmly set into a handle fiber,fibre - a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn
	2.	bristle - a stiff hair hair - a filamentous projection or process on an organism
Verb	1.	bristle - be in a state of movement or action; "The room abounded with screaming children"; "The garden bristled with toddlers" abound,burst feature,have - have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France"
	2.	bristle - rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!" uprise,stand up
	3.	bristle - have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles; "bristling leaves" feature,have - have as a feature; "This restaurant features the most famous chefs in France"
	4.	bristle - react in an offended or angry manner; "He bristled at her suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program" react,respond - show a response or a reaction to something

bristle

noun

1.hair,spine,thorn,whisker,barb,stubble,prickletwo days' growth of bristles

2.point,spur,needle,spike,spine,thorn,barb,prickleIt has a short stumpy tail covered with bristles.

verb

1.stand up,rise,prickle,stand on end,horripilateIt makes the hair on the nape of my neck bristle.

2.be angry,rage,seethe,flare up,bridle,see red,be infuriated,spit(informal),go ballistic(slang, chiefly U.S.),be maddened,wig out(slang),get your dander up(slang)He bristled with indignation.

3.abound,crawl,be alive,hum,swarm,teem,be thickThe country bristles with armed groups.

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

bristle

verb

1.To be or become angry:

anger,blow up,boil over,burn,explode,flare up,foam,fume,rage,seethe.

Informal:steam.

Idioms:blow a fuse,blow a gasket, blow one's stack,breathe fire,fly off the handle, get hot under the collar,hit the ceiling,lose one's temper,see red.

2.To be abundantly filled or richly supplied:

abound,crawl,flow,overflow,pullulate,swarm,teem.

Translations

شَعْرٌ خَشِنُ

chlupštětina

børstebørstehår

Borste

cerda

poil

sörte

burst, stinnt hár

andare in collera ispido setola

šeriaišeriuotasšerysšiurkštus

sari

bust

kocinaščetina

sert kıl

动物或刷子短而硬的毛

bristle

[ˈbrɪsl]

A.N [of brush, on animal] →cerdaf; [of beard]bristle(s) →barbaf (incipiente)

B.VI

1. [hair etc] →erizarse,ponerse depunta
to bristle with (fig) →estarerizado de
he bristled with anger →seenfureció

2. (fig) [person] →resentirse (at de)

C.CPDbristle brushN →cepillom depúas

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bristle

[ˈbrɪs^əl]

n →poilm

[hair] →se hérisser
bristling with →hérissé(e) de

to bristle with sth(fig) (=have a large number) →grouiller de qch

to bristle at sth →se hérisser à qch

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bristle

n (of brush, boar etc) →Borstef;(of beard) →Stoppelf

(animal’s hair) →sichsträuben;the dogbristled →demHund sträubte sich dasFell

(fig,person) →zornig werden;tobristle with anger →vorWut schnauben

(fig)to be bristling with people →vonor vorLeuten wimmeln;bristling with difficulties →mitSchwierigkeiten gespickt;the dress was bristling with pins →dasKleid steckte vollerNadeln;the soldiersbristled with weapons →dieSoldaten waren bis an dieZähne bewaffnet

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bristle

[ˈbrɪsl]

1.n (of beard, animal) →pelo; (of boar, brush) →setola
pure bristle brush →spazzola dipura setola
brush with nylon bristles →spazzola dinylon

2.vi (alsobristle up) →rizzarsi
to bristle with (fig) (pins, difficulties) →essereirto/a di (policemen, guards) →brulicare di
he bristled with anger →fremeva dirabbia

bristle

(ˈbrisl) noun

a short, stiff hair on an animal or brush.The dog's bristles rose when it was angry. steekhaar, borselhaar شَعْرٌ خَشِنُ козина pelo chlup, štětina die Borste børste; børstehår σκληρή τρίχα ζώου ή βούρτσαςcerda harjas موی کوتاه و زبر harjaspoilזיף सूअर का बाल čekinja sörte rambut atau bulu yang pendek dan kakupelo;setola 剛毛 강모 šerys, šeriai sari bulu kejur borstelhaar,stoppelhaarbust szczecina,sierść ځیګ او لنډ ویښته pelo păr; blană; ţepщетина chlp kocina dlaka ragg, borst ขนแข็งของสัตว์หรือแปรง sert kıl 短而硬的毛(動物或刷子) щетина جانوروں کے سخت بال lông cứng （动物或刷子）短而硬的毛

ˈbristly adjective

having bristles; rough.a bristly moustache. borselrig, stekelrigخَشِنٌ четинест hirsuto štětinatý, srstnatý; naježenýborstig stikkende; strittendeαγκαθωτός,σκληρός que pincha, de pelos fuertes harjaseline دارای موهای کوتاه و زبر؛ زبر karheahérissé בַּעֲל זִיפִים कड़े बालों से ढ़का हुआ čekinjav szúrós kasarispido,irsuto 剛毛のある 강모질의 šeriuotas, šiurkštus sarains; ass misai yang kejurborstelig full av strid bust,stikkende,strittende szczeciniasty د لنډ او ځیګ ویښتو لرونکی hirsuto ţepos щетинистый; колючий naježený ščetinast čekinjav borstig, sträv มีขนแข็งsert,kaba,kıllı 長硬毛的，硬的 щетинистий; колючий جانوروں کے بالوں سے بنا ہوا dựng đứng 刚毛的，布满刚毛的

bristle

n (of a brush) cerda;soft-bristle de cerda suave;stiff-bristleohard-bristle de cerda dura

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"Tie my shoe,Bristle," said the King to the Keeper of the Wicket.

"Bristle, you may wait outside, in case I want you."

He then summonedBristle and said to him: "Assemble all the nobility in the great reception hall, and also tell Blinkem that I want him immediately."

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"Whenever I am angry, you rise andbristle; when I am pleased, you wag; when I am alarmed, you tuck yourself in out of danger.

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Don Quixote and Sancho were overwhelmed with amazement, and the bystanders lost in astonishment, while the Trifaldi went on to say: "Thus did that malevolent villain Malambruno punish us, covering the tenderness and softness of our faces with these roughbristles! Would to heaven that he had swept off our heads with his enormous scimitar instead of obscuring the light of our countenances with these wool-combings that cover us!

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One voyager in Purchas calls them the wondrous whiskers inside of the whale's mouth; another, hogs'bristles; a third old gentleman in Hackluyt uses the following elegant language: There are about two hundred and fifty fins growing on each side of his upper chop, which arch over his tongue on each side of his mouth.

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whistles and, wearing silkenbristles, live ever in clover, and

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As he noted the vicious, wolflike temper of his comrades he had a sweet thought that if the enemy was about to swallow the regimental broom as a large prisoner, it could at least have the consolation of going down withbristles for- ward.

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I fastened my fingers in thebristles at his neck and turned my eyes in the direction that his pointed.

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The behaviour was first noted at the zoo a few years ago, when a female hamadryas baboon was seen using abristle from an old broom to floss.

Flossing becomes monkey business

Charlotte Morgan, an animal behaviour student at the University of Exeter, spotted the primates cleaning between their teeth at Paignton Zoo Environmental The behaviour was first noted at the zoo a few years ago, when a female hamadryas baboon was seen using abristle from an old broom to floss.

Flossing becomes monkey business

Also, let 2018 be known as the year the toilet brush was redesigned and thatbristle brushes are O.U.T.

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