raise some hackles

:  to cause or help to rise to a standing position

:  awaken, arouse

:  to stir up :  incite

:  an act of raising or lifting

:  a rising stretch of road :  an upward grade :  rise

:  an increase in amount: such as

:  being an unknown, undetermined, or unspecified unit or thing

:  being one, a part, or an unspecified number of something (such as a class or group) named or implied

:  being of an unspecified amount or number

:  one indeterminate quantity, portion, or number as distinguished from the rest

:  an indefinite additional amount

:  about

:  in some degree :  somewhat

:  to some degree or extent :  a little

:  one of the long narrow feathers on the neck or saddle of a bird

:  the neck plumage of the domestic fowl

:  a comb or board with long metal teeth for dressing flax, hemp, or jute

:  to comb out with a hackle