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hackle
noun
make someone's hackles rise
his impatient reply made her hackles rise:
annoy, irritate, exasperate, anger, irk, vex, put out, nettle, provoke, incense, gall, rile, infuriate, antagonize, get on someone's nerves, rub up the wrong way, make someone's blood boil, ruffle someone's feathers, ruffle, try someone's patience;
offend, pique, peeve, rankle with;
informal aggravate, needle, make someone see red, hack off, get someone's back up, get someone's goat, get under someone's skin, get in someone's hair, get someone's dander up, bug, get, miff;
British, informal wind up, get at, nark, get across, get on someone's wick, get up someone's nose;
North American, informal tee off, tick off, burn up, rankle, ride, gravel;
informal , dated give someone the pip;
vulgar slang piss off;
rare exacerbate, hump, rasp.
antonyms appease.
hackle Oxford Dictionary of English