Ma'anar ƙamus na "hackles" shine gashin da ke bayan wuyan dabba wanda ke tashi lokacin da yake fushi ko tsorata. A alamance, tana iya komawa ga tashin hankalin mutum na fushi ko gaba, ko kuma yanayi mai tsauri ko rashin jituwa.
The skin between his shoulders itched and his hackles rose.
The corner was blind, and Rowan felt his hackles rise.
Her hackles rose along her back, and the top of her head wrinkled.
There was something wrong about him, something that set her flesh to crawling and her hackles twitching on end.
The hackles at the back of her neck were rising again, as if she were being watched.
I could feel my hackles rise as I imagined someone staring at our backs, tracking just a few steps behind us.
These, though known for their valour and their breed, were whimpering in a cluster at the head of a deep dip or goyal, as we call it, upon the moor, some slinking away and some, with starting hackles and staring eyes, gazing down the narrow valley before them.
I swiveled around crouching to the ground, growling, my hackles raised.
Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame.
If she and Trent could get past circling one another with raised hackles, and she could get past her unruly hormones, surely things would improve.
