different between smoulder vs bristle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sm??ld?(?)/

Verb

smoulder (third-person singular simple present smoulders, present participle smouldering, simple past and past participle smouldered)

1. (intransitive, chiefly Britain) Alternative form of smolder
   • 1895, H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter XI

     Lightning may blast and blacken, but it rarely gives rise to widespread fire. Decaying vegetation may occasionally smoulder with the heat of its fermentation, but this again rarely results in flames.

2. (obsolete) To smother; to suffocate; to choke.

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Noun

smoulder

1. (obsolete) smoke; smother
   • 1573, George Gascoigne, A Hundreth Sundry Flowres

     The smoulder stops our nose with stench.

Anagrams

• R-modules, moulders, remoulds

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