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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



... you get a-trotting, I shall catch you and prick up your behind, you sorry packhorse! Ah! you start, do you? I was about to drive you pretty fast, I tell you—you and your wheels and ...
— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al
... she placed a small gold ring on the prince's little finger. "This ring," she said, "will help you to be good; when you do evil, it will prick you, to remind you. If you do not heed its warnings a worse thing will happen to you, for I shall become your ...
— Stories to Tell to Children • Sara Cone Bryant
... these transplanted pieces were tattooed the letters of the alphabet; so that, when a communication was to be made, either of the persons, though the wide Atlantic rolled between them, had only to prick his arm with a magnetic needle, and straightway his friend received intimation that the telegraph was at work. Whatever letter he pricked on his own arm pained the same letter on the arm of his correspondent. ["Foreign Quarterly Review," vol. xii. p. 417.] Who knows but this system, if it had received ...
— Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Vol. I • Charles Mackay
... This was over the cow-house in the gable end; and in the dark opening sat Paul, his feet on the top step of the ladder, and Caesar, the yard-dog, lying by his side, his white paws hanging down over the edge, his sharp white muzzle and grey prick ears turned towards his friend, and his eyes casting such appealing looks, that he was getting more of the hunch of bread than probably Paul ...
— Friarswood Post-Office • Charlotte M. Yonge
... was startled to find an elegantly dressed gentleman reading a newspaper. He had black prick ears and ...
— The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter • Beatrix Potter


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