hackles
IPA: hˈækʌɫz
Root Word: Hackles
noun
- the erectile plumage or hair in the neck area of some birds and mammals.
Examples of "hackles" in Sentences
- It raises hackles of some folks.
- The throat hackles are shorter than in most other ravens.
- Consistent factitious editing raises hackles, that is all.
- I'm just saying to be cautious and to expect it to raise hackles.
- He may be an innocent user, but, at the moment, my hackles are up.
- Again, I'm not the first to have my hackles raised by this section.
- The slim neck projects from a cape of long, glossy, blue and white hackles.
- It is the largest and glossiest subspecies, with the longest throat hackles.