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Bristle Animal Hair Stiff Kind Erectile Brɪsl Frightened

Front bristle
Pron ['brɪsl]
Back 【BRISTLE】
He was so frightened that his hair seemed to bristle.
他是如此地震惊,以至于头发似乎都竖立起来。
【重点词汇】
bristle v. (毛发)竖立
Vocab
bristlea stiff hair

A bristle is a stiff hair — the kind men shave off their face or the kind badgers have all over. Bristle also means to get angry. Tell an animal rights activist you use a badger's bristle shaving brush and you'll get the idea.

The emotional meaning of to bristle comes from the fact that most animal bristles used by man are so-called erectile hairs — the ones that stand up on the neck or along the back of animal when it's angry or surprised. A common word associated with bristle is hackle, another name for such erectile animal hairs. Thus the saying "to get one's hackles up," which is pretty much identical to bristling.

All forms of 'bristle' will appear on average once every 758 pages.
bristle
bristled
bristlelike
bristly
bristliness

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