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Prick   /prɪk/   Listen
Prick

noun
1.
Insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous.  Synonyms: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson.
2.
A depression scratched or carved into a surface.  Synonyms: dent, incision, scratch, slit.
3.
Obscene terms for penis.  Synonyms: cock, dick, pecker, peter, putz, shaft, tool.
4.
The act of puncturing with a small point.  Synonym: pricking.
verb
(past & past part. pricked; pres. part. pricking)
1.
Make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn.  Synonym: prickle.
2.
Cause a stinging pain.  Synonyms: sting, twinge.
3.
Raise.  Synonyms: cock up, prick up.
4.
Stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick.  Synonym: goad.
5.
Cause a prickling sensation.  Synonym: prickle.
6.
To cause a sharp emotional pain.
7.
Deliver a sting to.  Synonyms: bite, sting.



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"Prick" Quotes from Famous Books



... spreads out his cutting-board for the last time, and cuts cowhides by unwonted patterns, and stitches them together into one continuous all-including Case, the farewell service of his awl! Stitch away, thou noble Fox: every prick of that little instrument is pricking into the heart of Slavery, and World-worship, and the Mammon-god. Thy elbows jerk, as in strong swimmer-strokes, and every stroke is bearing thee across the Prison-ditch, within which Vanity holds her Workhouse and Ragfair, into lands of true Liberty; were ...
— Sartor Resartus - The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh • Thomas Carlyle
... rode on and on—far far over mountain and dale, over sand- hills and moor. Then Dapplegrim began to prick up his ears again, and at last he asked the lad if he ...
— Popular Tales from the Norse • Sir George Webbe Dasent
... in a whisper to the King. "Were it not well, my liege, to send a page to the top of that sand-bank? Or would it stand with your pleasure that I prick forward? Methinks, by all yonder clash and clang, if there be no more than five hundred men beyond the sand-hills, half of the Soldan's retinue must be drummers and cymbal-tossers. Shall ...
— The Talisman • Sir Walter Scott
... was unpacking her box at 14 Palace Gardens. No sharpness, no slight now could prick her spirit; she had learned too well; she would ...
— Once Aboard The Lugger • Arthur Stuart-Menteth Hutchinson
... present at the second interview between Mr. Chelm and Mr. Prime, for several reasons. I was curious to have another look at my beneficiary, and I had an impression that Mr. Chelm might feel his legal conscience prick him, and so spoil the plot, if I were not within earshot. When the interview took place, however, the lawyer took a mild revenge by toying with his visitor a little at first, as though about to give an unfavorable answer; and I shall ...
— A Romantic Young Lady • Robert Grant


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