set up one's bristles
brustle
hit out
crab
face down
crabbedness
crossness
crabbiness
have one's back up
hoyden
huff
kick to the curb
pout
enturbulate
unedge
go into one's shell
vinegary
vinegarish
lick someone's balls
shrewish
maggoty
bat an eyelid
retaliation
misact
untemper
get on someone's grill
get at
snub
aptness
get stuck into
bristle
propensity
rip into
slapdown
show one's ass
blow the roof off
voluptuate
antagonistically
offend
make a nuisance of oneself
vituperate
get the bird
clutch one's pearls
pettish
backtalk
rasp
orp
roll
ponce
confront
offer
harshly
counter
lash
scorch
worry
kowtow
downstrike
abrasively
get it
remonstrate
gaff
cowedly
make baby Jesus cry
snitchy
foul-tempered
edgelord
inch
frost
mind
fret
belligerently
taste blood
ingratiating
barrack
hurtful
aggression
cheek up
forget one's manners
bridle
deprecate
emptive
cheek up to
spiteful
befoe
hostilely
cringe
err on the side of
temperability
ill-natured
crusty
retaliate
bellicose
jump down someone's throat
forbiddingly
faze
hate on
grim

English words for 'To bristle; to react in a defensive and bad-tempered manner.'

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