bristle
A stiff or coarse hair on a nonhuman mammal or on a plantA stiff or coarse hair on a nonhuman mammal or on a plant.
» The dog's hair bristled when it saw the lion.
Шерсть на собаці стала дибки, коли він побачив лева. — aandrusiak
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3 sensesA stiff or coarse hair on a nonhuman mammal or on a plant.
the bristles of a pig
Borste
щети́наščetína
щети́наščetýna
a stiff hair
A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.
Borste
щети́наščetína, ворсvors
Examples
19 sentencesThe dog's hair bristled when it saw the lion.
Шерсть на собаці стала дибки, коли він побачив лева. — aandrusiak
The riverside bristles with factory chimneys.
deAm Flussufer ragt ein Wald von Fabrikschornsteinen empor. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
The dog's hair bristled up with anger.
ruСобака в злости ощерилась. — kobylkin
deDem Hund sträubte sich vor Wut das Fell. — Yorwba
He bristled at the sight of me.
Ziri noticed the broom was missing bristles.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English bristil, bristel, brustel, from Old English bristl, byrst, *brystl, *bFrom Middle English bristil, bristel, brustel, from Old English bristl, byrst, *brystl, *byrstel, from Proto-West Germanic *burstilu, diminutive of Proto-West Germanic *bursti, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (compare Dutch borstel, German Borste (“boar's bristle”), Icelandic burst), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥stís (compare Middle Irish brostaid (“to goad, spur”), Latin fastīgium (“top”), Polish barszcz (“hogweed”)).
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