bristlier

Adjective

bristly (comparative bristlier, superlative bristliest)

1. Covered with bristles.
   • He was a short man with a long hooked nose. A blue skull-cap with a red border scarcely covered his head of bristly grey hair, and a short-bodied but long Ringerike coat of dark grey frieze with worn velvet borders served to make the roundness and crookedness of his back still more conspicuous.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 285
2. Easily antagonized; irascible; prone to bristling.