| 单词 | bristly |
| 例句 | bristly adjective 1.•bristly little bushes:prickly, spiky, thorny, scratchy, brambly. 2.•the bristly skin of his cheek:stubbly, hairy, fuzzy, unshaven, whiskered, whiskery | scratchy, rough, coarse, prickly | Biology setaceous, hispid. ANT smooth.WORD NOTE setaceous From the Latin saeta meaning "bristle," we derive this late-eighteenth-century term in its jocular form: "bristly, unshaven." For ambitious novelists only, probably, but acceptance is all in the frequency for these types of slightly pompous Latinate terms. Think of cornucopia ! — ZSConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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