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The Meaning of prick
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(v.) That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.
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(v.) The act of pricking, or the sensation of being pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse.
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(v.) A mark made by a pointed instrument; a puncture; a point.
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(v.) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
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(v.) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
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(v.) A mark denoting degree; degree; pitch.
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(v.) A mathematical point; -- regularly used in old English translations of Euclid.
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(v.) The footprint of a hare.
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(v.) A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco.
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(n.) To pierce slightly with a sharp-pointed instrument or substance; to make a puncture in, or to make by puncturing; to drive a fine point into; as, to prick one with a pin, needle, etc.; to prick a card; to prick holes in paper.
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(n.) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing; as, to prick a knife into a board.
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(n.) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark; -- sometimes with off.
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(n.) To mark the outline of by puncturing; to trace or form by pricking; to mark by punctured dots; as, to prick a pattern for embroidery; to prick the notes of a musical composition.
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(n.) To ride or guide with spurs; to spur; to goad; to incite; to urge on; -- sometimes with on, or off.
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(n.) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
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(n.) To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; -- said especially of the ears of an animal, as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up; -- hence, to prick up the ears, to listen sharply; to have the attention and interest strongly engaged.
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(n.) To render acid or pungent.
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(n.) To dress; to prink; -- usually with up.
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(n.) To run a middle seam through, as the cloth of a sail.
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(n.) To trace on a chart, as a ship's course.
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(n.) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
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(n.) To nick.
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(v. i.) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture; as, a sore finger pricks.
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(v. i.) To spur onward; to ride on horseback.
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(v. i.) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
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(v. i.) To aim at a point or mark.
Synonyms
asshole
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bastard
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cocksucker
,
dickhead
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shit
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mother fucker
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motherfucker
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whoreson
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son of a bitch
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SOB
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incision
,
scratch
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slit
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dent
,
cock
,
dick
,
shaft
,
pecker
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peter
,
tool
,
putz
,
pricking
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prickle
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sting
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twinge
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prick up
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cock up
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goad
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prickle
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sting
,
bite
Rhymes
afflik
,
arithmetic
,
bailiwick
,
bic
,
bick
,
blick
,
bolshevik
,
bric
,
brick
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broomstick
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bryk
,
candlestick
,
chick
,
chopstick
,
click
,
crick
,
cwik
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dic
,
dick
,
dipstick
,
dyk
,
dzik
,
fenwick
,
fick
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ficke
,
firebrick
,
flick
,
frick
,
fricke
,
gick
,
glick
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handpick
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hick
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homesick
,
impolitic
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joystick
,
kick
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knick
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krick
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kubrick
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kwik
,
lick
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lipstick
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lunatic
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mc
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mic
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mick
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micke
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nic
,
nick
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nightstick
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nik
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nonstick
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ostpolitik
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pic
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pick
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pickwick
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picnic
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pik
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politic
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quick
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quik
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realpolitik
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ric
,
rick
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ricke
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rilke
,
schick
,
schlick
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schrick
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schtick
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seasick
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shick
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shtick
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sic
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sick
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sidekick
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slapstick
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slick
,
smick
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snick
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spic
,
spick
,
stick
,
strick
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swick
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thick
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tic
,
tick
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toothpick
,
trick
,
vandyck
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vanwyck
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vanwyk
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vic
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vick
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vik
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wick
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wik
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wrick
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wyk
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yardstick
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zick
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zwick