different between brustle vs brustled

English

From Middle English brustlien and brastlien, related to German prasseln (“to crackle”). See burst.

brustle (plural brustles)

brustle (third-person singular simple present brustles, present participle brustling, simple past and past participle brustled)

To crackle; to rustle.
To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.
- 1684, Thomas Otway, The Atheist: Or, The Second Part of the Soldiers Fortune
  Cour. Oh, an Atheist, Sir; he believes neither God nor the Devil.
  Fath. 'Sbud, I'll brustle up to him. Are you an Atheist, Fellow? hoh?

brustle in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

brustled

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