bristle
- IPA[ˈbris(ə)l]
美式
- a short stiff hair, typically one of those on an animal's skin, a man's face, or a plant.；a stiff animal hair, or a man-made substitute, used to make a brush
- (of hair or fur) stand upright away from the skin, especially in anger or fear；make one's hair or fur stand on end
verb: bristle, 3rd person present: bristles, gerund or present participle: bristling, past tense: bristled, past participle: bristled
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名詞
- 1. a short stiff hair, typically one of those on an animal's skin, a man's face, or a plant. 同義詞
- ▪ a stiff animal hair, or a man-made substitute, used to make a brush a toothbrush with nylon bristles the heads are made with natural bristle 同義詞
動詞
- 1. (of hair or fur) stand upright away from the skin, especially in anger or fear the hair on the back of his neck bristled 同義詞
- ▪ make one's hair or fur stand on end the cat bristled in annoyance
- ▪ react angrily or defensively, typically by drawing oneself up she bristled at his rudeness 同義詞
- 2. be covered with or abundant in the roof bristled with antennas 同義詞
- (especially of hair) close-set, stiff, and spiky: a bristling beard
Oxford American Dictionary
- (especially of hair) short, stiff, and spiky: a bristling beard
Oxford Dictionary
- a marine annelid worm which has a segmented body with numerous bristles on the fleshy lobes of ...
Oxford American Dictionary
- a marine annelid worm which has a segmented body with numerous bristles on the fleshy lobes of ...
Oxford Dictionary
- a mainly tropical filmy fern with hairlike bristles protruding from the spore-containing bodies.
Oxford Dictionary
- a filmy fern with hairlike bristles protruding from the spore-containing bodies. Most bristle ...
Oxford American Dictionary
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- IPA[ˈbrɪsl]
英式
- a short, stiff hair on an animal's skin or a man's face.
- (of hair or fur) stand upright away from the skin, typically as a sign of anger or fear: the hair on the back of his neck bristled
Oxford Dictionary
