Crossword-Solution: BRISTLY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bristly | a. | Thick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BRISTLY | anagram | TRILBYS |
We have 18 clues for the answer “BRISTLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| setose | 1 answer |
| Like many a brush | 1 answer |
| hispid | 5 answers |
| Quick to anger | 5 answers |
| Easily provoked | 5 answers |
| stubbly | 8 answers |
| whiskered | 9 answers |
| Furry | 16 answers |
| Hirsute | 16 answers |
| Woolly | 17 answers |
| Shaggy | 17 answers |
| bushy | 18 answers |
| fleecy | 22 answers |
| in a bad mood | 31 answers |
| BEARDED ___ | 34 answers |
| Fuzzy | 65 answers |
| Irascible | 79 answers |
| Cross | 120 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BRISTLY (5)
She looked archly into the big, brown, mustached faces, smelling of spirits and tobacco, then she ran her tiny forefinger delicately over Joe’s bristly chin and said, “Here is my sweetheart.” The Bohemians roared with laughter, and Marie’s uncle hugged her until she cried, “Please don’t, Uncle Joe! You hurt me.” Each of Joe’s friends gave her a bag of candy, and she kissed them all around, though she did not like country candy very well.
Like nearly all Martian animals it is almost hairless, having only a great bristly mane about its thick neck.
One was rather short and very stoutly built, with a big bullet-shaped head, a bristly grey moustache, and small pale-blue eyes, a trifle bloodshot.
But I can’t help sometimes feeling that men like Armstrong want an occasional glass of wine to sadden them.” Merton’s official superior, a grizzled and capable detective named Gilder, was standing on the green bank waiting for the coroner, talking to Patrick Royce, whose big shoulders and bristly beard and hair towered above him.
But when thou hast gripped him fast with hand and gyve, Then divers forms and bestial semblances Shall mock thy grasp; for sudden he will change To bristly boar, fell tigress, dragon scaled, And tawny-tufted lioness, or send forth A crackling sound of fire, and so shake of The fetters, or in showery drops anon Dissolve and vanish.
Quotes with BRISTLY (3)
The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives
When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake …
She told no one of the otter. Garrett would want to trap it; Faina would ask her to draw it. She refused to confine it by any means because, in some strange way, she knew it was her heart. Living, twisting muscle beneath bristly damp fur. Breaking through thin ice, splashing in cold creek water, sliding belly-down across snow. Joyful, though it should have known better.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (2001–2020).