different between bristle vs upstare

English

Etymology

From Middle English bristil, bristel, brustel, diminutive of brust, from Old English byrst, from Proto-Germanic *burstiz (compare Dutch borstel, German Borste (“boar's bristle”), Icelandic burst), from Proto-Indo-European *b?r?stís (compare Middle Irish brostaid (“to goad, spur”), Latin fast?gium (“top”), Polish barszcz (“hogweed”)), equivalent to brust +? -le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??s.l?/
• (dated, rural folk speech of New England and Upstate New York) IPA^(key): /?b??s.l?/
• Rhymes: -?s?l

Noun

bristle (plural bristles)

1. A stiff or coarse hair.

   the bristles of a pig

2. The hairs or other filaments that make up a brush, broom, or similar item.

Derived terms

• bristlet

Translations

Verb

bristle (third-person singular simple present bristles, present participle bristling, simple past and past participle bristled)

1. To rise or stand erect, like bristles.
2. abound, to have an abundance of something
3. (with at) To be on one's guard or raise one's defenses; to react with fear, suspicion, or distance.
4. To fix a bristle to.

   to bristle a thread

Derived terms

• bristling

Translations

References

• bristle at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Bitlers, Liberts, blister, reblits, riblets

English

Etymology

From up- +? stare.

Verb

upstare (third-person singular simple present upstares, present participle upstaring, simple past and past participle upstared)

1. (intransitive) To stare or stand erect or on end; be erect or conspicuous; bristle.
   • c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I scene ii^[1]:

     […] With hair up-staring—then like reeds, not hair— […]

   • 1896, Edward Dowden, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley:

     In the street or road he reluctantly wore a hat, but in fields or gardens his little round head had no other covering than his long, wild, ragged locks." These wild locks upstared more wildly when Shelley, having dipped his head, [...]

   • 1903, Charles James Longman, Longman's magazine: Volume 42:

     Th' Blofielders wor a right upstaren' lot o' chaps, and we had several owd scores ter set off agin them, so all Ranner woted for savage camp and Blofield didn't gainsay us.

   • 1927, Collected poems of Alexander G. Steven

     I have no people living ; none, Thank God ! will mourn me there, / Dreaming in misery of one Whose clouded eyes upstare

   • 1999, Thomas W. Krise, Caribbeana:

     [...] aghast, upstared my Hair, I speechless stood!

Anagrams

• Pasteur, Puertas, Supetar, pasture, tear-ups, tears up, uprates, uptears