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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



... one side of his character had been almost unknown to him. He had been quite unaware that he possessed a conscience most painfully sensitive with regard to the interests of others, a conscience that would prick him and poison his peace were he to leave even little things undone in the fulfilment of the trust he ...
— The Ghost Girl • H. De Vere Stacpoole
... because, looking at that dead boy, I for once remembered that I was a woman? You doubt me! Who are you to dare do it? What have you done for the Cause that will weigh in the scales against what I have done? Show me the paltry pin-prick of suffering that you ...
— A Bachelor's Dream • Mrs. Hungerford
... and dejected, depressed condition of the prisoners, their systems had become so disordered that the smallest abrasion of the skin, from the rubbing of a shoe, or from the effects of the sun, or from the prick of a splinter, or from scratching, or a musketo bite, in some cases, took on rapid and frightful ulceration and gangrene. The long use of salt meat, ofttimes imperfectly cured, as well as the most total ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy
... "You prick the marrow of my opinion. The funerals I have attended in my time were comedies compared to it. ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... happenings, and new accounts were brought to the chateau daily. The occurrence was too complicated for her, and everything connected with it smelt too much of the unclean. Only when the name of Bastide Grammont was first mentioned did she prick up her ears, follow the affair, and have her father or the servants report to her the supposed course of events, displaying more ...
— The German Classics, v. 20 - Masterpieces of German Literature • Various


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