English Explanatory Dictionary

prick

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
  2. An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
  3. A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
  4. A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
  5. A small pointed object.
  6. The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
  7. A feeling of remorse.
  8. The penis.
  9. Someone (especially a male) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
  10. A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
  11. The footprint of a hare.
  12. A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
verb
  1. To pierce or puncture slightly.
  2. To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
  3. To shoot without killing.
  4. To form by piercing or puncturing.
  5. To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
  6. To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
  7. To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
  8. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
  9. To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
  10. To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
  11. Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
  12. To incite, stimulate, goad.

Pronunciation

/pɹɪk/ [pʰɹ̠̊ɪk] En-au-prick.ogg

Word forms

prick pricks pricking pricked

Etymology

From Middle English prik, prikke, from Old English prica, pricu (“a sharp point, minute mark, spot, dot, small portion, prick”), from Proto-West Germanic *prikō, *priku, from Proto-Germanic *prikô, *prikō (“a prick, point”), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *breyǵ- (“to scrape, scratch, rub, prickle, chap”). Cognate with West Frisian prik (“small hole”), West Frisian prikke (“penis”), Dutch prik (“point, small stick", also "penis”), Danish prik (“dot”), Icelandic prik (“dot, small stick”).

Synonyms

assbag assbreath assbucket asscunt assface assfag assfaggot assfuck assfucker asshat asshead asshole assmonkey assmouth assmunch assmuncher asstard asswagon assweed asswipe bag of dicks ball sack ballsucker barf bag bastard berk bitchcunt bitchface bitchfuck bitchwhore blackguard buttface butthead buttmunch buttmuncher choad chunderhead chunk-blower cockbag cockbreath cockface cockfag cockfuck cockfucker cock gobbler cockhead cock-knocker cockmonger cockmunch cockmuncher cocksack cockshit cocksuck cocksucker cockwad cockwaffle cockweasel cockwipe crapface craphead

Derived words

ear prick fingerprick gnat's prick heelprick like a spare prick at a wedding pinprick prick-eared prickery pricket prickette prickface prick farrier prickhead prickish prickle prickless pricklouse prickly prick of perfection prick post prick punch prickpunch prickshaft pricksong prick tease prickteaser prick-teaser prick test prickwad prickwood pricky superprick pricked pricker pricking pricking at the belt prickingly pricking-up prick-me-dainty prick one's ears prick out prick the garter prick up one's ears

Translations

Albanian: ngul Albanian: shpoj Arabic: قْرص Bulgarian: убождам Bulgarian: пробивам Dutch: prikken Esperanto: piki Finnish: pistää French: piquer Galician: picar German: stechen Ancient Greek: κεντέω Latin: pungō Māori: oka Quechua: t'uksiy Quechua: kichkay Romanian: înțepa Romanian: pișca Romanian: ciupi Romanian: împunge Scottish Gaelic: stob Spanish: pinchar Spanish: puyar Spanish: pungir Spanish: empuyar (disused) Spanish: espichar Thai: ทิ่ม Walloon: piker Zyphe: dong
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