bristler
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone or something that bristles.
Example Sentences
- "but study this useful little insect, and we find that by care and attention we may not only manage to approach the little bristler, without fear of its weapon, but extract so many sweets, that when we know its service, we wonder how any one on earth can be so silly as to quarrel with it!"
- "Is it the braggart and the bristler, the man who has nothing to learn, who would build a wall between America and other lands, or would array America against the world;"
- "We are the "bristlers," the easily hurt and hostile, the solitary ones, the "people are bums" man, the "don't let anyone know" woman."
- "The old school baseball people bristled (Showalter was probably the chief bristler), but the fans fell in love with his big swings and big personality."
- "And Claudia wasn't a bristler by nature; she was as bubbly as they came."
- "'Twas he who rear'd the roe-deer's brood, And the young bristler of the wood ;"
Etymology
From bristle + -er.