Prick
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English
Noun
Prick (plural Pricks)- A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
- An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
- (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
- (obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
- A small pointed object.
- The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
- I felt a sharp prick as the nurse took a sample of blood.
- (slang, vulgar) The penis.
- (slang, pejorative) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
- (now historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
Verb
Prick (third-person singular simple present Pricks, present participle Pricking, simple past and past participle Pricked)
- (transitive) To pierce or puncture.
- John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood at his physical.
- (transitive, figuratively) To urge, to spur, to goad, to incite.
- My duty pricks me on to utter that. Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 7.
- (nautical, obsolete) To trace a ship’s course on a chart.
- (nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail. (The Universal Dictionary of the English Language, 1896)
Thesaurus
aculeus, acuminate, acumination, acute pain, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, auger, barb the dart, be keen, birthmark, bit, bite, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, bore, borer, boring pain, brand, bristle with, broach, bruise, bugger, burn, cage, caste mark, chafe, chalk, chalk up, charley horse, check, check off, checkmark, cicatrix, cicatrize, convulse, corral, countersink, cramp, cramps, crick, crucify, cusp, cut, cut up, dapple, darting pain, dash, define, delimit, demarcate, discolor, discoloration, distress, dot, drill, drive, drove, earmark, egg on, empierce, engrave, engraving, enter, excite, excruciate, exhort, fester, fix, fleck, flick, flog, freckle, fret, fulgurant pain, gad, gadfly, gall, gash, girdle pain, give pain, gnaw, gnawing, goad, gore, gouge, gouge out, grate, graving, grieve, grind, gripe, griping, hack, harrow, hatch, have an edge, herd, hitch, hole, honeycomb, hurt, hurt the feelings, impale, impress, imprint, inflame, inflict pain, irritate, itch, jab, jag, jot, jumping pain, kill by inches, kink, lacerate, lance, lancinating pain, lash, lentigo, line, macula, make a mark, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, martyr, martyrize, mole, mottle, mucro, neb, needle, nevus, nib, nick, nip, notch, nudge, oxgoad, pain, pang, paroxysm, patch, pencil, penetrate, pepper, perforate, perforation, pierce, pinch, pinhole, pink, pinprick, pique, point, poke, polka dot, prickle, print, prod, prolong the agony, prompt, propel, punch, punch cattle, punctuate, puncture, put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, ream, ream out, riddle, ride herd on, round up, rowel, rub, run through, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, scum, seal, seam, seizure, sharp pain, shepherd, shit, shithead, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, sic, skewer, skunk, slash, slit, smart, snake, spasm, spear, speck, speckle, spike, spit, splash, splotch, spot, spur, stab, stabbing pain, stain, stamp, stick, stigma, stigmatize, stimulate, sting, stinker, stitch, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, tap, tattoo, tattoo mark, thrill, throes, tick, tick off, tingle, tip, tittle, toad, tormen, torment, torture, trace, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, turd, tweak, twinge, twist, twist the knife, twitch, underline, underscore, watermark, whip, whiplash, wound, wrangle, wrench, wring
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Old English prica, from Proto-Germanic. Cognate with West Frisian prik (“small hole”), Dutch prik (“point, small stick”), Icelandic prik (“dot, small stick”). Pejorative context came from prickers, or witch-hunters.
Etymology 2
From Middle English prikken, from Old English prician
Translations
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Verb
Swedish
Noun
{[sv-noun|g=c}} Prick
- dot, small spot
- Sista bokstaven i det svenska alfabetet är "ö", det vill säga ett "o" med två prickar över.
- The last letter in the Swedish alphabet is "ö", that is, an "o" with two dots over it.
- guy, person; especially about a particularly nice or funny one
- Det var en riktigt trevlig prick, det där.
- That was a really nice guy, that.
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Declension
Notes
In the sense of "person", it is mainly used in conjunction with the adjectives rolig (funny) or trevlig (nice).
Derived terms
- mitt i prick - right on the spot
Related terms
- English nouns
- English terms with obsolete senses
- English slang
- English vulgarities
- English pejoratives
- English historical terms
- English verbs
- En:Nautical
- English terms derived from Old English
- English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- English terms derived from Middle English
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