bristle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stiff or coarse hair on a nonhuman mammal or on a plant.
    — the bristles of a pig
  2. A chaeta: an analogous filament on arthropods, annelids, or other animals.
  3. The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item, typically made from plant cellulose, animal hairs, or synthetic polymers.
动词 v.
  1. To rise or stand erect, like bristles. intransitive
    — His hair began to bristle with anger when the subject was mentioned.
  2. To abound, to be covered with, or to have an abundance of, something, especially something jutting out. intransitive,usually
    — the hill of La Haye Sainte bristling with ten thousand bayonets
  3. To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance. intransitive,usually
    — The employees bristled at the prospect of working through the holidays.
  4. To make (something) rise or stand erect, like bristles. archaic,obsolete,transitive
    — The lion is let looſe inthe night, and the Earle hauing a night-gowne caſt ouer his ſhirt, with his girdle and ſword, and ſo comming downe the ſtaires into the court, meeteth with the lion briſtling his haire, and roaring.
  5. To cause (someone) to be on one's guard or raise one's defenses. transitive,uncommon
    — Your blatant attitude always bristles me.
  6. To fix a bristle or bristles to. rare
    — to bristle a thread

词形变化

bristles plural bristles present,singular,third-person bristling participle,present bristled participle,past bristled past

词汇关系

衍生词
abristle basal bristle bristlebill bristlebird bristlebot bristle brush bristlecone bristlefront bristlegrass bristlehead bristleless bristlelike bristle moss bristlemouth bristler bristle snail bristlet bristle-tail bristletail bristleworm bristle worm bristly nanobristle rebristle yellow bristle grass bristle up bristling

词源

词源 1
From 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”)).
词源 2
From 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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