Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To crackle; make a small crackling noise; also, to rustle, as a silk garment.
- To cause to crackle; crack.
- An obsolete or dialectal form of
bristle . - To approach one threateningly: as, “I'll brustle up to him,”
- To bruise; crush.
- To parch.
- noun A dialectal or obsolete form of
bristle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Prov. A bristle.
- intransitive verb obsolete To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment.
- intransitive verb obsolete To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.
- intransitive verb [Obs.] to bristle up.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bristle .
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Examples
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Boylin teh brustle sprowts is fyn, juss nawt fur free dais!
One garden down… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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"Ye could see the ha'r begin to brustle under his coat," Solomon was wont to say of Burley, in speaking of that moment.
In the Days of Poor Richard Irving Bacheller 1904
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'Why, the old girl _brustle_ along like a Hedge-sparrow!'
Two Suffolk Friends Francis Hindes Groome 1876
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It'd be identical to me getting offended because you like brustle sprouts .... you see ...
Planet Apache 2009
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It'd be identical to me getting offended because you like brustle sprouts .... you see ...
Planet Apache 2009
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"'T is not to be whispered outside, Jan, but some of these same rebel Jerseymen -- ay, and the Connecticut Yankees -- much prefer the ring of British guineas to the brustle of the worthless paper money of the Whigs, so almost nightly boat-loads of provisions and forage steal out of the Raritan for New York, but for which the British army would be on short commons.
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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