Clues for the word "BRISTLE"
We've had 30 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 32 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Daily American crossword on February 01, 2024.
Definition of bristle
- n. - A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
- n. - A stiff, sharp, roundish hair.
- v. t. - To erect the bristles of; to cause to stand up, as the bristles of an angry hog; -- sometimes with up.
- v. t. - To fix a bristle to; as, to bristle a thread.
- v. i. - To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
- v. i. - To appear as if covered with bristles; to have standing, thick and erect, like bristles.
- v. i. - To show defiance or indignation.
Referring Clues
- Take offense
- Stand up
- 52-Down part
- Display irritation
- Brush part
- Show irritation
- Betray discontentment
- Brush component
- Stiffen with resentment
- Show some irritation
- Become angry
- React angrily
- Take umbrage
- Prickly hair
- React in an offended way
- Tough hair
- Short stiff hair
- Show anger in hair-raising fashion
- Show annoyance with a troublesome blister?
- See red hair?
- Stiff hair
- Short, tough piece of hair
- Visibly take offense
- Coarse hair
- Whisker
- Bridle in which there's an animal hair
- At "hair of the dog," become angry
- Stand up and look angry
- SETA
- Show annoyance with a troublesome blister?
Last Seen In
- Daily American - February 01, 2024
- USA Today - December 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - July 25, 2023
- Daily American - June 25, 2023
- Daily American - February 01, 2018
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 14, 2017
- Daily American - June 25, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - June 19, 2017
- LA Times - December 11, 2016
- Universal - September 20, 2016
- Guardian Quick - December 22, 2015
- Universal - August 25, 2015
- Guardian Quick - June 25, 2015
- LA Times - March 14, 2015
- Guardian Quick - November 22, 2014
- Guardian Cryptic - July 30, 2014
- New York Times - January 13, 2013
- Guardian Quick - October 19, 2012
- LA Times - March 18, 2012
- LA Times Sunday - October 30, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - September 30, 2011
- LA Times - January 11, 2011
- Netword - August 21, 2010
- Guardian Quick - December 25, 2009
- New York Times - May 21, 2008
- Guardian Quick - April 16, 2007
- Washington Post - September 06, 2006
- Netword - December 24, 2005
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - June 29, 2005
- New York Times - December 07, 2001
- And in 2 more crossword puzzles...