brustle

verb /ˈbɹʌsəl/

1. To crackle; to rustle.

2. To make a show of fierceness or defiance; to bristle.

   Fath. 'Sbud, I'll brustle up to him. Are you an Atheist, Fellow? hoh?

   Cour. Oh, an Atheist, Sir; he believes neither God nor the Devil.

Where it comes from

From Middle English brustlen, variant of brastlen, from Old English brastlian, from Proto-West Germanic *brastulōn, from Proto-Germanic *brastōną. Related to German prasseln (“to crackle”). See burst.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry brustle (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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