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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



... the bandage that Molly has put on!" said the man angrily. "My wrist will be quite all right; it's absurd to make a fuss about a pin-prick." ...
— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile
... don't prick at all," she said; "they mean well by us. I believe we could pass through the Sleeping Beauty's ...
— Dame Care • Hermann Sudermann
... the occasion from a ranch six or eight leagues distant. These were the only hounds on which we could place any trust, and they were led in leashes by the two trailers. One was a white bitch, the other, the best one we had, was a gelded black dog. They were lean, half-starved creatures with prick ears and a look ...
— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt
... break, because I pinched the edges together so hard; it isn't hurt a bit, so I'll prick holes in it, and then it will be ready," said Sally, picking up the capsized treasure and putting it into shape with a child-like disregard of the dust it had gathered in ...
— Little Men - Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys • Louisa May Alcott
... in the dungeons of Doubting Castle. He has encountered on his journey the same fellow-travellers. Who does not know Mr. Pliable, Mr. Obstinate, Mr. Facing-both-ways, Mr. Feeble Mind, and all the rest? They are representative realities, flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. 'If we prick them they bleed, if we tickle them they laugh,' or they make us laugh. 'They are warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer' as we are. The human actors in 'The Holy War' are parts of men—special virtues, ...
— Bunyan • James Anthony Froude


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