BRISTLE

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bristle I. substantiv

1. păr (de porc etc.), ţepi, ghimpi, ace;

(fig.) to set up one's bristles a se zbârli, a se zborşi, a se supăra foc.

2. (pl. fig.) temperament irascibil.

bristle II. verb A. tranzitiv

a zbârli.

bristle II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. (şi to bristle up) a se zbârli.

2. (fig.) a se zbârli, a se zborşi, a se burzului, a se înverşuna, a se supăra foc, a-şi ieşi din fire.

3. to bristle with a abunda în, a fi plin de;

to bristle with difficulties a fi plin de dificultăţi.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Each compartment was bristling with papers and plans.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You remember the great bristle of sharp canes down below where we found the skeleton of the American?

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How was he to know that this thing that sniffed was a thing at which to bristle?

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Big John stood waiting in the centre with a sullen, menacing eye, and his red hair in a bristle, while the archer paced lightly and swiftly to the right and the left with crooked knee and hands advanced.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From a rise of the road on the shoulder of Crooksbury Hill, we could see the grim Hall bristling out from amidst the ancient oaks, which, old as they were, were still younger than the building which they surrounded.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

White Fang stood over the shin-bone, bristling and menacing, while Baseek stood a little way off, preparing to retreat.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

He crouched and bristled a little at the thought of it.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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