pritchn.

Brit.

/prɪtʃ/, U.S.

/prɪtʃ/

Forms: Old English pricce, early Middle English pricche, early Middle English priche, 1500s prytch, 1500s– pritch (now English regional (East Anglian and west midlands), 1600s (1800s English regional (Yorkshire)) prich.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: prick n.

Etymology: Variant (with palatalized consonant) of prick n. Compare pritch v.It is uncertain whether sense 3 shows the same word. Much earlier currency in this sense is apparently implied by post-classical Latin prichpottus (15th cent. in a British source).

Now rare.

I. Senses relating to a goad or spur.

†a. A prick, goad, or spur. Also figurative. Cf. prick n. 9. Obsolete.In quot. OE H. D. Meritt (in the edition cited) emends to pricles, but this is unnecessary.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates

prickleOE

pritchOE

alighting1340

brodc1375

bellowsc1386

pricka1387

motivec1390

prompting1402

preparativec1450

stirmentc1460

incentive?a1475

fomenta1500

farda1522

instigation1526

pointing1533

swinge1548

spur1551

whetstone1551

goad1567

promptitude1578

alarm1587

inducement1593

solicitor1594

incitement1596

inflammation1597

instance1597

excitement1604

moving spirit1604

heart-blood1606

inflamer1609

rouser1611

stimulator1614

motioner1616

incensivea1618

incitative1620

incitation1622

whettera1625

impulsivea1628

excitation1628

incendiary1628

dispositive1629

fomentationa1631

switch1630

stirrer1632

irritament1634

provocative1638

impetus1641

driving force1642

driving power1642

engagement1642

firer1653

propellant1654

fomentary1657

impulse1660

urgency1664

impeller1686

fillip1699

shove1724

incitive1736

stimulative1747

bonus1787

stimulus1791

impellent1793

stimulant1794

propulsion1800

instigant1833

propulsive1834

motive power1836

evoker1845

motivity1857

afflatus1865

flip1881

urge1882

agent provocateur1888

will to power1896

a shot in the arm1922

motivator1929

driver1971

co-driver1993

OE Glosses to Epigrammata of Prosper (Trin. Cambr. O.2.31) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Glosses (1945) 26/1 Stimulos [peccati] : pricces.

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 26 Eien beoð þe earewen & te ereste armes of lecheries pricches [?c1225 Cleo. prickes].

c1300 St. Mark (Harl.) 12 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 159 (MED) [a1325 Corpus Cambr. Þe soutare atte veorste] priche [wel vuel is hond priȝte].

b. A sharp-pointed tool or implement; spec. †(a) English regional (East Anglian) a tool for making stake-holes; (also) an eel-spear (obsolete); (b) English regional (western) a prop for a cart.Cf. prick n. 10.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun]

piercer1421

pritchel?a1500

piercel1747

pritch1795

1795 Sale Catal. in Notes & Queries (1951) 14 Apr. 156/2 Large iron crow... Small ditto, and fold pritch.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 293 Pritch, a dentated instrument to strike and hold eels. Also a heavy pointed iron for making holes in the earth for hurdle stakes &c.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Pritch,..1. A fold-pritch is that with which holes are made in the ground to receive fold-stakes... 2. An eel-pritch is a spear for taking eels.

1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 725/1 Pritch, (Suff.), a heavy pointed iron for making holes for stakes. In Worc. a stick, iron shod, hanging at the tail of a cart, and acting as a prop when resting on a steep road.

1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Pritch, a long pole furnished with an iron fork at one end, used by Severn boatmen for propelling their boats,—a river term.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Perch,..the iron-pointed stave often fixed by a joint to the axletree of carts and wagons, to prevent their running back when the horse stops on an ascent. The word no doubt is pritch or point.

1955 F. G. Ashbrook Butchering vi. 97 Prop the carcass squarely on its back with a block of wood, a stick sharpened at both ends, or a pritch.

1966 G. E. Evans Pattern under Plough 23 The leister, too, is very similar in design to the eel-pritch, glare, or pilger, which was in common use in East Anglia before the First World War.

†2. A grudge, spite, or offence. Chiefly in to take (a) pritch (against). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > [noun] > a grudge

quarrel1340

grudge1531

heart-burningsa1533

eelist1552

pritch1563

stitcha1591

ingrudge1606

disobligationa1754

down1835

to have a downer on1866

hard-on1949

1563 A. Golding tr. L. Bruni Hist. Warres Imperialles & Gothes iii. ii. f. 98^v Howbeit somme were of opinion that he tooke prytch agaynst Uraias bycause that latly before, there had bene altercation betwen his wife and the Queene.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xii. 1) All of them with one consent taking pritch against a good cace.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxxix. 5) Hee taketh prytch, that hee is not delte with more meeldly.

1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 406 If a noble mans Secretary be cast out of fauour with his Lord, so that he taketh a pritch against him, it is a matter of great sorrow.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 274 The finer Selfe is spunne, the more she will take pritch if she be defeated.

†II. Senses relating to beer.

3. Weak or inferior beer. Obsolete (English regional (northern) in later use). Perhaps originally: soured beer (cf. prick v. 6, pricked adj.¹ 4).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > weak or inferior beer

small beer1498

small drinkc1525

tap-lash1623

pritch1673

grout1674

belch1706

whip-belly1738

penny-whip1786

swipes1796

strike-me-dead1824

inky-pinky1835

swankey1841

suds1904

near-beer1909

1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 37 Prich: Thin drink.

1679 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. (ed. 2) Prich, potus pertenuis.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 104/2 Wort of the last drawing..is..of some called put up drink, shower-trough, or penny prich.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 105/1 Pritch Drink,..drinks sweet and sower, through a taint that it hath taken through the foulness of the Vessels.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Prich, small beer, thin drink.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pritchv.

Brit.

/prɪts/, U.S.

/prɪtʃ/

Forms: Old English priccan, Middle English ipriȝt (past participle), Middle English preche, Middle English pricche, Middle English priche, Middle English prighte (past tense), Middle English priȝte (past tense), Middle English prycche, Middle English pryche, Middle English pryghche, 1500s prych (Scottish), 1500s– pritch (now English regional), 1800s– purch (English regional (Somerset)).

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: prick v.

Etymology: Variant (with palatalized consonant) of prick v. Compare pritch n.In Old English the prefixed form apriccan to make a dot or prick (compare a- prefix¹ ) is also attested:OE Homily: Be rihtan Cristendome (Hatton 113) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 146 Þonne man ænne prican apricce on anum bradum brede.

1. transitive. To prick; to affect with a pricking sensation. Now English regional.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > strike with pointed weapon

prickOE

pritchOE

snese?c1225

threstc1275

stokea1300

bearc1330

stangc1340

broach1377

foinc1380

borea1400

dag?a1400

gorea1400

gridea1400

slot?a1400

staira1400

through-girdc1405

thrustc1410

runc1425

to run throughc1425

traversec1425

spitc1430

through-seeka1500

to run in1509

stab1530

to stab (a person) in1530

accloy1543

push1551

stoga1572

poacha1616

stocka1640

stoccado1677

stug1722

kittle1820

skewer1837

pitchfork1854

poke1866

chib1973

the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > cause pain by pricking > affect with pricking

pritchc1450

prickle1612

OE Glosses to Boethius (Corpus Cambr. 214) in W. C. Hale Edition & Codicol. Study CCCC MS 214 (Ph.D. diss., Univ. Pennsylvania) (1978) 319 Quem ualentia deserit, quem molestia pungit : þone þe hefigtymnys tyrigð oþþe priccedt.

a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 118 Þe ne stiȝte ne þe ne priȝte in side in lende ne elles-where.

c1395 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 418 A fawkon..with hir beek hir seluen..prighte.

c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 31 If seeknes come therin, thus shalle thou knowe: þi tunge shalle be pricchid, þi mouth shalle be bittir.

c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. 46 (margin) And as Baals preistis prychit thame [with k]nyfis and boitkynness.

1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxxiv. sig. Biv^v His nostrils so pritcht.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words at Bullock I ha got sitch a lamentaable push,..an at night ta itch an ta pritch, an ta gaa-alva.

1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester 118 Pritch, to prick.

†2. intransitive. In goldsmithing (and perhaps also in the working of other metals): to locate the centre of an item to be worked. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 259/1 [Goldsmith's Work] Pritching, is to find the center of the Plate to be worked.

3. transitive. Originally and chiefly English regional (south-western). To prick or punch holes in. Earliest in pritch thou!: used as an imprecation (obsolete).

ΚΠ

1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 11 Whan the young Zaunder Vursdon and thee stey'd up oll tha Neert a roasting o' Taties, pritch tha vor me!

1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 13 Tha art a Beagle, Chun, pritch tha! vor anether Trick.

1771 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 7) (Gloss.) s.v. To Pritch, to prick Holes in;—to make Holes for the Wires in the Leathers of Wool-Cards.

1796 Premiums offered by Dublin Soc. Agric. & Planting, Manuf. & Fine Arts 47 Proof will be required on Oath..that the Leaves were all pritched, and the Wire-staples crooked, as aforesaid, in Ireland.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Perch, to punch or prick holes in anything, chiefly in horses' shoes, with a pritchil or purchil.

4. transitive. English regional. To catch (an eel) with an eel-spear or similar implement.

ΚΠ

1840 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 38 Pritch, to use a pritch...Often pronounced also prick, i.e. an iron crow, or an instrument for taking eels.]

1894 E. Clodd FitzGerald's Grave 8 Ditches whence delicious eels are pritched.

Derivatives

ˈpritching n. and adj. †(a) n. a pricking or puncture (obsolete); (b) adj. pricking; that causes a pricking sensation (now rare and English regional).

ΚΠ

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 95 Nalde me tellen him alre monne dusegest þe forseke..a nelde pricchunge [?c1225 Cleo. pricunge] for an bihefdunge?

a1450 Late Middle Eng. Treat. on Horses (1978) 127 (MED) Loke þat þou hold þe hole of þe prychynge sumdel open.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. ii. 203 There is roughnes and sharpnes of the skinne with itching & pritching in the bodie, comming of the same humour (that is to say) of choler.

1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel iii. 207 Men..such (for the most part) as will not sticke forsooth (in the pritching heate of their holie pride) to say..to all others besides themselues, Stand apart, and come not neere vnto me.

1769 T. Tomlinson Med. Misc. 59 The first perception of a pritching heat and pain in the extremity of one of the fingers only.

1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 623/2 [Worcs.] I've got sharp pritching pains.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pritch
释义	pritchn. Brit. /prɪtʃ/, U.S. /prɪtʃ/ Forms: Old English pricce, early Middle English pricche, early Middle English priche, 1500s prytch, 1500s– pritch (now English regional (East Anglian and west midlands), 1600s (1800s English regional (Yorkshire)) prich. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: prick n. Etymology: Variant (with palatalized consonant) of prick n. Compare pritch v.It is uncertain whether sense 3 shows the same word. Much earlier currency in this sense is apparently implied by post-classical Latin prichpottus (15th cent. in a British source). Now rare. I. Senses relating to a goad or spur. 1. †a. A prick, goad, or spur. Also figurative. Cf. prick n. 9. Obsolete.In quot. OE H. D. Meritt (in the edition cited) emends to pricles, but this is unnecessary. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > that which incites or instigates prickleOE pritchOE alighting1340 brodc1375 bellowsc1386 pricka1387 motivec1390 prompting1402 preparativec1450 stirmentc1460 incentive?a1475 fomenta1500 farda1522 instigation1526 pointing1533 swinge1548 spur1551 whetstone1551 goad1567 promptitude1578 alarm1587 inducement1593 solicitor1594 incitement1596 inflammation1597 instance1597 excitement1604 moving spirit1604 heart-blood1606 inflamer1609 rouser1611 stimulator1614 motioner1616 incensivea1618 incitative1620 incitation1622 whettera1625 impulsivea1628 excitation1628 incendiary1628 dispositive1629 fomentationa1631 switch1630 stirrer1632 irritament1634 provocative1638 impetus1641 driving force1642 driving power1642 engagement1642 firer1653 propellant1654 fomentary1657 impulse1660 urgency1664 impeller1686 fillip1699 shove1724 incitive1736 stimulative1747 bonus1787 stimulus1791 impellent1793 stimulant1794 propulsion1800 instigant1833 propulsive1834 motive power1836 evoker1845 motivity1857 afflatus1865 flip1881 urge1882 agent provocateur1888 will to power1896 a shot in the arm1922 motivator1929 driver1971 co-driver1993 OE Glosses to Epigrammata of Prosper (Trin. Cambr. O.2.31) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Glosses (1945) 26/1 Stimulos [peccati] : pricces. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 26 Eien beoð þe earewen & te ereste armes of lecheries pricches [?c1225 Cleo. prickes]. c1300 St. Mark (Harl.) 12 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 159 (MED) [a1325 Corpus Cambr. Þe soutare atte veorste] priche [wel vuel is hond priȝte]. b. A sharp-pointed tool or implement; spec. †(a) English regional (East Anglian) a tool for making stake-holes; (also) an eel-spear (obsolete); (b) English regional (western) a prop for a cart.Cf. prick n. 10. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > piercing or boring tools > [noun] piercer1421 pritchel?a1500 piercel1747 pritch1795 1795 Sale Catal. in Notes & Queries (1951) 14 Apr. 156/2 Large iron crow... Small ditto, and fold pritch. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 293 Pritch, a dentated instrument to strike and hold eels. Also a heavy pointed iron for making holes in the earth for hurdle stakes &c. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Pritch,..1. A fold-pritch is that with which holes are made in the ground to receive fold-stakes... 2. An eel-pritch is a spear for taking eels. 1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 725/1 Pritch, (Suff.), a heavy pointed iron for making holes for stakes. In Worc. a stick, iron shod, hanging at the tail of a cart, and acting as a prop when resting on a steep road. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Pritch, a long pole furnished with an iron fork at one end, used by Severn boatmen for propelling their boats,—a river term. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Perch,..the iron-pointed stave often fixed by a joint to the axletree of carts and wagons, to prevent their running back when the horse stops on an ascent. The word no doubt is pritch or point. 1955 F. G. Ashbrook Butchering vi. 97 Prop the carcass squarely on its back with a block of wood, a stick sharpened at both ends, or a pritch. 1966 G. E. Evans Pattern under Plough 23 The leister, too, is very similar in design to the eel-pritch, glare, or pilger, which was in common use in East Anglia before the First World War. †2. A grudge, spite, or offence. Chiefly in to take (a) pritch (against). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > anger > indignation or resentment > [noun] > a grudge quarrel1340 grudge1531 heart-burningsa1533 eelist1552 pritch1563 stitcha1591 ingrudge1606 disobligationa1754 down1835 to have a downer on1866 hard-on1949 1563 A. Golding tr. L. Bruni Hist. Warres Imperialles & Gothes iii. ii. f. 98^v Howbeit somme were of opinion that he tooke prytch agaynst Uraias bycause that latly before, there had bene altercation betwen his wife and the Queene. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xii. 1) All of them with one consent taking pritch against a good cace. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxxix. 5) Hee taketh prytch, that hee is not delte with more meeldly. 1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 406 If a noble mans Secretary be cast out of fauour with his Lord, so that he taketh a pritch against him, it is a matter of great sorrow. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 274 The finer Selfe is spunne, the more she will take pritch if she be defeated. †II. Senses relating to beer. 3. Weak or inferior beer. Obsolete (English regional (northern) in later use). Perhaps originally: soured beer (cf. prick v. 6, pricked adj.¹ 4). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun] > weak or inferior beer small beer1498 small drinkc1525 tap-lash1623 pritch1673 grout1674 belch1706 whip-belly1738 penny-whip1786 swipes1796 strike-me-dead1824 inky-pinky1835 swankey1841 suds1904 near-beer1909 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 37 Prich: Thin drink. 1679 E. Coles Dict. Eng.-Lat. (ed. 2) Prich, potus pertenuis. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 104/2 Wort of the last drawing..is..of some called put up drink, shower-trough, or penny prich. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 105/1 Pritch Drink,..drinks sweet and sower, through a taint that it hath taken through the foulness of the Vessels. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Prich, small beer, thin drink. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pritchv. Brit. /prɪts/, U.S. /prɪtʃ/ Forms: Old English priccan, Middle English ipriȝt (past participle), Middle English preche, Middle English pricche, Middle English priche, Middle English prighte (past tense), Middle English priȝte (past tense), Middle English prycche, Middle English pryche, Middle English pryghche, 1500s prych (Scottish), 1500s– pritch (now English regional), 1800s– purch (English regional (Somerset)). Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: prick v. Etymology: Variant (with palatalized consonant) of prick v. Compare pritch n.In Old English the prefixed form apriccan to make a dot or prick (compare a- prefix¹ ) is also attested:OE Homily: Be rihtan Cristendome (Hatton 113) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 146 Þonne man ænne prican apricce on anum bradum brede. 1. transitive. To prick; to affect with a pricking sensation. Now English regional. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > cut of sharp weapon > cut or penetrate (of weapon) [verb (transitive)] > strike with pointed weapon prickOE pritchOE snese?c1225 threstc1275 stokea1300 bearc1330 stangc1340 broach1377 foinc1380 borea1400 dag?a1400 gorea1400 gridea1400 slot?a1400 staira1400 through-girdc1405 thrustc1410 runc1425 to run throughc1425 traversec1425 spitc1430 through-seeka1500 to run in1509 stab1530 to stab (a person) in1530 accloy1543 push1551 stoga1572 poacha1616 stocka1640 stoccado1677 stug1722 kittle1820 skewer1837 pitchfork1854 poke1866 chib1973 the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > affect with type of pain [verb (transitive)] > cause pain by pricking > affect with pricking pritchc1450 prickle1612 OE Glosses to Boethius (Corpus Cambr. 214) in W. C. Hale Edition & Codicol. Study CCCC MS 214 (Ph.D. diss., Univ. Pennsylvania) (1978) 319 Quem ualentia deserit, quem molestia pungit : þone þe hefigtymnys tyrigð oþþe priccedt. a1300 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 118 Þe ne stiȝte ne þe ne priȝte in side in lende ne elles-where. c1395 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 418 A fawkon..with hir beek hir seluen..prighte. c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 31 If seeknes come therin, thus shalle thou knowe: þi tunge shalle be pricchid, þi mouth shalle be bittir. c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. 46 (margin) And as Baals preistis prychit thame [with k]nyfis and boitkynness. 1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxxiv. sig. Biv^v His nostrils so pritcht. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words at Bullock I ha got sitch a lamentaable push,..an at night ta itch an ta pritch, an ta gaa-alva. 1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester 118 Pritch, to prick. †2. intransitive. In goldsmithing (and perhaps also in the working of other metals): to locate the centre of an item to be worked. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 259/1 [Goldsmith's Work] Pritching, is to find the center of the Plate to be worked. 3. transitive. Originally and chiefly English regional (south-western). To prick or punch holes in. Earliest in pritch thou!: used as an imprecation (obsolete). ΚΠ 1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 11 Whan the young Zaunder Vursdon and thee stey'd up oll tha Neert a roasting o' Taties, pritch tha vor me! 1746 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 3) ii. 13 Tha art a Beagle, Chun, pritch tha! vor anether Trick. 1771 Exmoor Scolding (ed. 7) (Gloss.) s.v. To Pritch, to prick Holes in;—to make Holes for the Wires in the Leathers of Wool-Cards. 1796 Premiums offered by Dublin Soc. Agric. & Planting, Manuf. & Fine Arts 47 Proof will be required on Oath..that the Leaves were all pritched, and the Wire-staples crooked, as aforesaid, in Ireland. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Perch, to punch or prick holes in anything, chiefly in horses' shoes, with a pritchil or purchil. 4. transitive. English regional. To catch (an eel) with an eel-spear or similar implement. ΚΠ 1840 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 38 Pritch, to use a pritch...Often pronounced also prick, i.e. an iron crow, or an instrument for taking eels.] 1894 E. Clodd FitzGerald's Grave 8 Ditches whence delicious eels are pritched. Derivatives ˈpritching n. and adj. †(a) n. a pricking or puncture (obsolete); (b) adj. pricking; that causes a pricking sensation (now rare and English regional). ΚΠ c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 95 Nalde me tellen him alre monne dusegest þe forseke..a nelde pricchunge [?c1225 Cleo. pricunge] for an bihefdunge? a1450 Late Middle Eng. Treat. on Horses (1978) 127 (MED) Loke þat þou hold þe hole of þe prychynge sumdel open. 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. ii. 203 There is roughnes and sharpnes of the skinne with itching & pritching in the bodie, comming of the same humour (that is to say) of choler. 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel iii. 207 Men..such (for the most part) as will not sticke forsooth (in the pritching heate of their holie pride) to say..to all others besides themselues, Stand apart, and come not neere vnto me. 1769 T. Tomlinson Med. Misc. 59 The first perception of a pritching heat and pain in the extremity of one of the fingers only. 1903 Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 623/2 [Worcs.] I've got sharp pritching pains. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OEv.OE
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