[adj] having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"
[adj] very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
Synonyms
armed, barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, ill-natured, spiny, splenetic, thorny, waspish