The Clue
Irascible (7 letter answer)
The Answer
BRISTLY
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Notes
The answer BRISTLY is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Related Clues
Easily provoked
Definition
BRISTLY as an adjective:
1. (bristly, prickly, splenetic, waspish) = very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful"; "witty and waspish about his colleagues"
2. (barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny) = having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"