[
UK
/pɹˈɪk/
]
[ US /ˈpɹɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɪk/ ]
VERB
- cause a prickling sensation
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deliver a sting to
A bee stung my arm yesterday -
to cause a sharp emotional pain
The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience -
cause a stinging pain
The needle pricked his skin - stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
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make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn
The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample -
raise
The dog pricked up his ears
NOUN
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- obscene terms for penis
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the act of puncturing with a small point
he gave the balloon a small prick - a depression scratched or carved into a surface
How To Use prick In A Sentence
- The clergyman and his son pricked up their ears at this, photography being with them only a degree less absorbing a pastime than that of walking; Ron awoke suddenly to the remembrance that his half-plate camera had never been unpacked since his arrival; and the three vied with each other in asking questions about the proposed excursion, and in urging that a date should be fixed. Big Game A Story for Girls
- Over Fate of Georgia, Provinces With Russian forces appearing to hunker down in Georgia, U.S. and European officials now face a pricklier challenge: Moscow's insistence that it has the right to help break up the country. U.S.-Russia Relations Turn Cold
- He has a triangular version of Rupert's stylised muzzle with the same pricked ears and bright black-button eyes.
- In the split second that their gazes locked, that same prickly sensation consumed his mind as if the blood flow to his brain had suddenly been cut off.
- Common knapweed is like a pretty thistle without prickles. Times, Sunday Times
- Often had little Emit heard the sounds at night - sharp sounds that pricked at his ears and his temples.
- After a while, the prickly feeling of anxiousness dulls and turns blunt.
- At the May state dinner for Mexican President Felipe Calderón, prickly pear cactus showed up in vermeil wine coolers, and Dowling also tucked a few among the in the centerpieces of fuchsia roses and Cattleya orchids. White House florist shows Obamas' relaxed style
- Yorkshire folk turned prickly yesterday after a wild flower charity announced that the common harebell had replaced the white rose as the county's floral emblem.
- Now he puts the light sounds with something else remembered, with primrose, with laughter, and down through him a prickle runs and it seems to stop in his belly, below him.