prickedadj.¹

Brit.

/prɪkt/, U.S.

/prɪkt/

Forms: see prick v. and -ed suffix¹; also 1600s prict; Scottish pre-1700 pirckit (transmission error).

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prick v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < prick v. + -ed suffix¹. With sense 3 compare earlier prick adj. N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (pri·kėd) /ˈprɪkɪd/.

a. Pierced by pricking; punctured; injured by piercing or pricking.In the earliest examples applied to bread.

ΚΠ

a1348 Secretum Abb. Glastonie (MS Wood empt. 1) lf. 146^v (MED) Unum panem uocatum Priketlof, et alterum panem uocatum Bastardlof.

1359 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 68 (MED) Prikedmich.

1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 218 Hangit, mangit, edir stangit, strynde stultorum..Pirckit [read prickit; 1568 Pickit], wickit, conwickit lamp Lollardorum.

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 30/2 The wounde of the pricked synnue.

1614 T. Adams Deuills Banket (new ed.) ii. 77 No plaister will heale his pricked finger.

1782 V. Knox Ess. (new ed.) II. lxxxviii. 29 If he has been fortunate enough..to prescribe, with success, in the case of some Duchess Dowager's pricked finger, his fortune is made.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 503 The money bags shrink like pricked bladders.

1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. iii. 71 Malarial blood..does not flow freely from the pricked finger.

1941 Times 7 Oct. 5/4 The aching back and the pricked finger give them [sc. blackberries] a virtuous flavour.

1979 R. Cassilis Arrow of God v. iii. 178 The laughter died like a pricked balloon.

1993 Mother & Baby Feb. 42/1 To microwave, wrap scrubbed pricked potatoes in kitchen paper and microwave on full power for 6 to 8 minutes.

†b. pricked-up adj. [after to prick up at prick v. 18] Plastering Obsolete (of a surface) scratched or scored to provide a hold for a (further) layer of plaster. See prick v. 18.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having ears > having prick-ears > of ears: pricked up

pricka1449

pricked1579

up-pricked1593

pricked-up1825

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 619 Over the pricked-up coat of lime and hair.

1832 Encycl. Brit. V. 679/2 When the pricked up coat is..dry..,preparations may be made for the floating.

1876 Notes Building Constr. II. 409 Depeter consists of a pricked up coat [of plaster] with small stones pressed in while it is soft, so as to produce a rough surface.

c. Of a game bird: wounded or disabled by shooting. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [adjective] > of a wounded bird

pricked1932

1932 Times 25 July 8/4 It is possible that these ‘piners’ that died off in the spring were mainly pricked birds from last year.

1940 N. M. Sedgwick Young Shot v. 45 The guns should carefully mark where game falls,..where..a bird with a pricked wing comes down.

1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 212/1 Thereafter, for days, a salmon was seen constantly to move in the one place, and gradually I became certain that it was one and the same fish that had twice been lost. Never did any of us visit the Island but there it was, rolling up every few minutes as so often a pricked fish will.

2001 Times (Nexis) 1 Dec. (Features section) The spaniel which retrieved a pricked bird two fields away.

a. Esp. of a design or pattern: formed of, or traced or written in, pricks or dots; dotted; †written (obsolete).Earliest in pricked song n. at Compounds.

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society > communication > writing > state of having been written > [adjective]

writtenOE

pricked1463

penned1567

handwritten1583

paper1616

literal1621

inditeda1640

in manuscript1646

scribed1662

scriptory1704

scriptured1763

pen and ink1810

scriptitious1815

paper-and-pencil1927

1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 17 (MED) I wille yt on the day of myn intirment be songge a messe of prikked song at Seynt Marie auter.

c1520 Bk. Mayd Emlyn 33 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 84 We do nought togyder, But prycked balades synge.

1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 405/2 The clergie of the realme haue burned vp their false prycked bookes.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. xi. 180 Draw the prickt Line NS.

1716 J. Perry State of Russia 60 I..by a prick'd Line have shewn the extent of the Czar's Countrey.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vi. 192 In the plan..the road..is marked out by a prickt line.

1820 M. Edgeworth Let. 20 Dec. (1971) 226 I think the pricked map upon the whole better out and have seen the proof sheets and left it out.

1880 in L. Higgin Handbk. Embroidery 107 Designs..on pricked paper.

1933 Burlington Mag. Jan. 43/1 There are pricked designs for figures which can be identified on vestments still existing.

1967 Daily Tel. 1 Feb. 13/2 Making lace borders, using a pricked parchment pattern, and placing pins in the holes, which control the completed stitches.

1992 Apollo June 355/3 The first category to be considered is the pricked cartoon, used for the transfer of patterns.

b. Ceramics. Ornamented with designs traced in this way. rare.

ΚΠ

1908 N.E.D. (at cited word) Pricked,..spec. in Pottery, ornamented with designs traced in dots.

1953 Biblical Archaeologist 16 4 All the forms and wares most typical of the period are present, including black pricked ware, button-base vases, [etc.].

3. Of the ears of an animal (esp. a dog): erect and pointed; upright; cocked up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having ears > having prick-ears > of ears: pricked up

pricka1449

pricked1579

up-pricked1593

pricked-up1825

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 72 So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis Pref. sig. A4^v A Grey hound hath pricked Ears, but..those of a Hound hang down.

1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 226 The Lircher is a Kind of Dog..with prickt Ears.

1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 39 A smallish, reddish-brown, sharp-nosed animal, with pricked-up ears.

1898 Bk. of Dogs 62 [The Pomeranian] has sharp features and pricked ears.

1917 J. London Michael Brother of Jerry vii. 48 He rolled over on his side and with questioning eyes and pricked ears looked and listened.

1975 E. Baird Illustr. Guide Riding xvi. 111 (caption) Pricked ears suggest an interest in the work.

2005 Vallejo (California) Times-Herald (Nexis) 21 July I skipped the third race: The mules... Pricked-up ears, unsightly gait, a short 350-yard sprint.

4. Of wine, beer, etc.: turned or turning sour or vinegary. Cf. prick v. 6. Also figurative. Now rare.

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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > [adjective] > turning sour

pricked1600

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 110 Moul. I was prickt wel enough before, and you could haue let me alone.

1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 41 And turn as eager, as Prick'd Wine.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Prickt, decayed Wine, tending to Sower.

1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 108 Which will occasion the Whole [ale] to become sometimes only pricked, or just tainted.

1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 89/1 The wine will..become opaque and yellowish as turned and pricked wine.

1834 T. Hood Tylney Hall (1840) 3 Technically speaking her temper was a little pricked.

1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 27 Oct. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vii. 393 The ale, a dark-brown liquid, harsh, and a little pricked.

1893 Fresno (Calif.) Weekly Republican 24 Mar. Brandies are frequently made from unsound or pricked wine.

1978 Sunday Times Mag. 19 Feb. 17/2 Pricked, one stage from vinegar. Unattractive, sharp taste, but the wine may be just drinkable.

1998 C. L. Sullivan Compan. Calif. Wine 106/1 Tasters often call this smell acetic... In days past one often heard that such a wine was ‘pricked’, but this term has been all but lost.

5. Produced or obtained by pricking. rare.

ΚΠ

1901 Munsey's Mag. Aug. 644/1 A pricked drop of blood from a wild animal injected into a healthy tame animal would cause it to fall sick of nagana.

6. pricked-out adj. [after to prick out at prick v. 17] (of seedlings) planted out in a bed after being moved from the trays or boxes in which the seeds were germinated.

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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [adjective] > planted

plantedc1450

set1562

pricked-out1911

1911 Times 26 Aug. 4/2 The pricked-out seedlings must be nursed with the constant can and shaded with mats through the blazing mornings.

1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock iv. 154 The small pricked-out plants irritated him like ignorance.

1975 Country Life 13 Feb. 388/3 Space the pricked-out seedlings at seven by four.

1996 People (Nexis) 17 Mar. 35 Spray pricked-out seedlings daily with diluted seaweed extract to encourage strong growth and disease resistance.

Compounds

† pricked song n. [compare slightly earlier pricksong n., and also post-classical Latin cantus precatus (1504 in a British source)] Obsolete (a piece of) pricksong.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun]

pricksonga1450

pricked song1463

musicc1615

dot1919

1463 [see sense 2a].

1483 Two 16th-cent. Accts. of Royal Occasions in Notes & Queries (1973) 20 125 Before his Highnes bothe prestes and clerkes, syngyng Laten and prykedsong.

c1500 in R. G. Cant College St. Salvator (1950) 159 Ane gret prykkyt sang buk and tua smallar of prekyt senggyn and ij salter in the quer.

1556 Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) 70 The said Sir Johne sall study continualie quhill he be cunnand in prikat sang.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke (title page) The first teacheth to sing with all things necessary for the knowledge of pricktsong.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 187 Beeing much delighted with the Alexandrines praises in prict song.

1691 T. D'Urfey Love for Money ii. ii. 20 Jenny drest in a Bib & Apron, a Prict Song in one hand, and a great piece of Bread and Butter in t'other.

1761 tr. C. Batteux Course Belles Lettres II. ii. iv. 253 Their declamation was a kind of singing; and had its notes like prickt songs, but wanted the other characteristics of a piece of music.

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

† prickedadj.²

Forms: see prick n. and -ed suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prick n., -ed suffix².

Etymology: < prick n. + -ed suffix². Compare earlier pricked adj.¹

Obsolete.

1. Pointed, tapering; prickly, sharp; furnished with a sting. Also, of a candlestick: bearing prickets.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > condition of tapering to a point > [adjective]

piked1269

pointedc1325

sharp1340

peakedc1350

pricked?a1425

sharp-pointed1530

acuatea1550

piquant1549

picked1552

corned?c1562

arrow-headed1567

acuminated1578

pointing1578

acute1598

exasperated1608

spitted1626

pointy1644

sagittal1656

pecked1662

piqued1689

spired1694

piky1741

spiky1743

spiry1777

apexed1813

beak-shaped1830

peaky1832

apiculated1839

cusped1888

sagittiform1895

cuspate1896

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > armed > with sting

pricked1552

stinged1552

aculeate1826

?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) 6 Whyte and prikked..as thornes.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 406 Poyntyd or prykkyd, punctatus.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Prycked or stynged, aculeatus.

1584 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 368 iii prickt candle~stickes.

2. Esp. of a musical note: supplied with a prick (prick n. 3) or pricks; dotted.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > marking > [adjective] > with dots

pricked1659

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [adjective] > dotted (of notes)

pricked1659

dottedc1760

overdotted1960

1659 C. Simpson Division-violist 9 A Note is sometimes graced by joyning part of its sound to the Note following; like a Prickt-Crochet: whose following Quaver is Placed with the ensuing Note.

1665 S. Pepys Diary 23 Apr. (1972) VI. 88 Every barr to end in a pricked Crochet and quaver.

1667 C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Musick 24 Here you have a Prickt-Crochet (or Crochet with a Prick after it).

1715 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 204 Prickt Letters never signify Moments, unless when they are multiplied by the Moment o either exprest or understood to make them infinitely little.

1778 J. Crompton Psalm Singer's Assistant Introd. p. lxxxiv A Pricked Crotchet is three Quavers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	pricked
释义	prickedadj.¹ Brit. /prɪkt/, U.S. /prɪkt/ Forms: see prick v. and -ed suffix¹; also 1600s prict; Scottish pre-1700 pirckit (transmission error). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prick v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < prick v. + -ed suffix¹. With sense 3 compare earlier prick adj. N.E.D. (1908) also gives the pronunciation (pri·kėd) /ˈprɪkɪd/. 1. a. Pierced by pricking; punctured; injured by piercing or pricking.In the earliest examples applied to bread. ΚΠ a1348 Secretum Abb. Glastonie (MS Wood empt. 1) lf. 146^v (MED) Unum panem uocatum Priketlof, et alterum panem uocatum Bastardlof. 1359 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 68 (MED) Prikedmich. 1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 218 Hangit, mangit, edir stangit, strynde stultorum..Pirckit [read prickit; 1568 Pickit], wickit, conwickit lamp Lollardorum. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 30/2 The wounde of the pricked synnue. 1614 T. Adams Deuills Banket (new ed.) ii. 77 No plaister will heale his pricked finger. 1782 V. Knox Ess. (new ed.) II. lxxxviii. 29 If he has been fortunate enough..to prescribe, with success, in the case of some Duchess Dowager's pricked finger, his fortune is made. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 503 The money bags shrink like pricked bladders. 1898 P. Manson Trop. Dis. iii. 71 Malarial blood..does not flow freely from the pricked finger. 1941 Times 7 Oct. 5/4 The aching back and the pricked finger give them [sc. blackberries] a virtuous flavour. 1979 R. Cassilis Arrow of God v. iii. 178 The laughter died like a pricked balloon. 1993 Mother & Baby Feb. 42/1 To microwave, wrap scrubbed pricked potatoes in kitchen paper and microwave on full power for 6 to 8 minutes. †b. pricked-up adj. [after to prick up at prick v. 18] Plastering Obsolete (of a surface) scratched or scored to provide a hold for a (further) layer of plaster. See prick v. 18. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having ears > having prick-ears > of ears: pricked up pricka1449 pricked1579 up-pricked1593 pricked-up1825 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 619 Over the pricked-up coat of lime and hair. 1832 Encycl. Brit. V. 679/2 When the pricked up coat is..dry..,preparations may be made for the floating. 1876 Notes Building Constr. II. 409 Depeter consists of a pricked up coat [of plaster] with small stones pressed in while it is soft, so as to produce a rough surface. c. Of a game bird: wounded or disabled by shooting. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [adjective] > of a wounded bird pricked1932 1932 Times 25 July 8/4 It is possible that these ‘piners’ that died off in the spring were mainly pricked birds from last year. 1940 N. M. Sedgwick Young Shot v. 45 The guns should carefully mark where game falls,..where..a bird with a pricked wing comes down. 1952 Chambers's Jrnl. Apr. 212/1 Thereafter, for days, a salmon was seen constantly to move in the one place, and gradually I became certain that it was one and the same fish that had twice been lost. Never did any of us visit the Island but there it was, rolling up every few minutes as so often a pricked fish will. 2001 Times (Nexis) 1 Dec. (Features section) The spaniel which retrieved a pricked bird two fields away. 2. a. Esp. of a design or pattern: formed of, or traced or written in, pricks or dots; dotted; †written (obsolete).Earliest in pricked song n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > state of having been written > [adjective] writtenOE pricked1463 penned1567 handwritten1583 paper1616 literal1621 inditeda1640 in manuscript1646 scribed1662 scriptory1704 scriptured1763 pen and ink1810 scriptitious1815 paper-and-pencil1927 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 17 (MED) I wille yt on the day of myn intirment be songge a messe of prikked song at Seynt Marie auter. c1520 Bk. Mayd Emlyn 33 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. IV. 84 We do nought togyder, But prycked balades synge. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 405/2 The clergie of the realme haue burned vp their false prycked bookes. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. xi. 180 Draw the prickt Line NS. 1716 J. Perry State of Russia 60 I..by a prick'd Line have shewn the extent of the Czar's Countrey. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. vi. 192 In the plan..the road..is marked out by a prickt line. 1820 M. Edgeworth Let. 20 Dec. (1971) 226 I think the pricked map upon the whole better out and have seen the proof sheets and left it out. 1880 in L. Higgin Handbk. Embroidery 107 Designs..on pricked paper. 1933 Burlington Mag. Jan. 43/1 There are pricked designs for figures which can be identified on vestments still existing. 1967 Daily Tel. 1 Feb. 13/2 Making lace borders, using a pricked parchment pattern, and placing pins in the holes, which control the completed stitches. 1992 Apollo June 355/3 The first category to be considered is the pricked cartoon, used for the transfer of patterns. b. Ceramics. Ornamented with designs traced in this way. rare. ΚΠ 1908 N.E.D. (at cited word) Pricked,..spec. in Pottery, ornamented with designs traced in dots. 1953 Biblical Archaeologist 16 4 All the forms and wares most typical of the period are present, including black pricked ware, button-base vases, [etc.]. 3. Of the ears of an animal (esp. a dog): erect and pointed; upright; cocked up. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having ears > having prick-ears > of ears: pricked up pricka1449 pricked1579 up-pricked1593 pricked-up1825 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Feb. 72 So smirke, so smoothe, his pricked eares. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis Pref. sig. A4^v A Grey hound hath pricked Ears, but..those of a Hound hang down. 1736 Compl. Family-piece ii. i. 226 The Lircher is a Kind of Dog..with prickt Ears. 1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 39 A smallish, reddish-brown, sharp-nosed animal, with pricked-up ears. 1898 Bk. of Dogs 62 [The Pomeranian] has sharp features and pricked ears. 1917 J. London Michael Brother of Jerry vii. 48 He rolled over on his side and with questioning eyes and pricked ears looked and listened. 1975 E. Baird Illustr. Guide Riding xvi. 111 (caption) Pricked ears suggest an interest in the work. 2005 Vallejo (California) Times-Herald (Nexis) 21 July I skipped the third race: The mules... Pricked-up ears, unsightly gait, a short 350-yard sprint. 4. Of wine, beer, etc.: turned or turning sour or vinegary. Cf. prick v. 6. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > [adjective] > turning sour pricked1600 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 110 Moul. I was prickt wel enough before, and you could haue let me alone. View more context for this quotation 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 41 And turn as eager, as Prick'd Wine. 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Prickt, decayed Wine, tending to Sower. 1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 108 Which will occasion the Whole [ale] to become sometimes only pricked, or just tainted. 1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 89/1 The wine will..become opaque and yellowish as turned and pricked wine. 1834 T. Hood Tylney Hall (1840) 3 Technically speaking her temper was a little pricked. 1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 27 Oct. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vii. 393 The ale, a dark-brown liquid, harsh, and a little pricked. 1893 Fresno (Calif.) Weekly Republican 24 Mar. Brandies are frequently made from unsound or pricked wine. 1978 Sunday Times Mag. 19 Feb. 17/2 Pricked, one stage from vinegar. Unattractive, sharp taste, but the wine may be just drinkable. 1998 C. L. Sullivan Compan. Calif. Wine 106/1 Tasters often call this smell acetic... In days past one often heard that such a wine was ‘pricked’, but this term has been all but lost. 5. Produced or obtained by pricking. rare. ΚΠ 1901 Munsey's Mag. Aug. 644/1 A pricked drop of blood from a wild animal injected into a healthy tame animal would cause it to fall sick of nagana. 6. pricked-out adj. [after to prick out at prick v. 17] (of seedlings) planted out in a bed after being moved from the trays or boxes in which the seeds were germinated. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > [adjective] > planted plantedc1450 set1562 pricked-out1911 1911 Times 26 Aug. 4/2 The pricked-out seedlings must be nursed with the constant can and shaded with mats through the blazing mornings. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock iv. 154 The small pricked-out plants irritated him like ignorance. 1975 Country Life 13 Feb. 388/3 Space the pricked-out seedlings at seven by four. 1996 People (Nexis) 17 Mar. 35 Spray pricked-out seedlings daily with diluted seaweed extract to encourage strong growth and disease resistance. Compounds † pricked song n. [compare slightly earlier pricksong n., and also post-classical Latin cantus precatus (1504 in a British source)] Obsolete (a piece of) pricksong. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] pricksonga1450 pricked song1463 musicc1615 dot1919 1463 [see sense 2a]. 1483 Two 16th-cent. Accts. of Royal Occasions in Notes & Queries (1973) 20 125 Before his Highnes bothe prestes and clerkes, syngyng Laten and prykedsong. c1500 in R. G. Cant College St. Salvator (1950) 159 Ane gret prykkyt sang buk and tua smallar of prekyt senggyn and ij salter in the quer. 1556 Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) 70 The said Sir Johne sall study continualie quhill he be cunnand in prikat sang. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke (title page) The first teacheth to sing with all things necessary for the knowledge of pricktsong. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 187 Beeing much delighted with the Alexandrines praises in prict song. 1691 T. D'Urfey Love for Money ii. ii. 20 Jenny drest in a Bib & Apron, a Prict Song in one hand, and a great piece of Bread and Butter in t'other. 1761 tr. C. Batteux Course Belles Lettres II. ii. iv. 253 Their declamation was a kind of singing; and had its notes like prickt songs, but wanted the other characteristics of a piece of music. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † prickedadj.² Forms: see prick n. and -ed suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prick n., -ed suffix². Etymology: < prick n. + -ed suffix². Compare earlier pricked adj.¹ Obsolete. 1. Pointed, tapering; prickly, sharp; furnished with a sting. Also, of a candlestick: bearing prickets. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > condition of tapering to a point > [adjective] piked1269 pointedc1325 sharp1340 peakedc1350 pricked?a1425 sharp-pointed1530 acuatea1550 piquant1549 picked1552 corned?c1562 arrow-headed1567 acuminated1578 pointing1578 acute1598 exasperated1608 spitted1626 pointy1644 sagittal1656 pecked1662 piqued1689 spired1694 piky1741 spiky1743 spiry1777 apexed1813 beak-shaped1830 peaky1832 apiculated1839 cusped1888 sagittiform1895 cuspate1896 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [adjective] > armed > with sting pricked1552 stinged1552 aculeate1826 ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) 6 Whyte and prikked..as thornes. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 406 Poyntyd or prykkyd, punctatus. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Prycked or stynged, aculeatus. 1584 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 368 iii prickt candle~stickes. 2. Esp. of a musical note: supplied with a prick (prick n. 3) or pricks; dotted. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > marking > [adjective] > with dots pricked1659 society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [adjective] > dotted (of notes) pricked1659 dottedc1760 overdotted1960 1659 C. Simpson Division-violist 9 A Note is sometimes graced by joyning part of its sound to the Note following; like a Prickt-Crochet: whose following Quaver is Placed with the ensuing Note. 1665 S. Pepys Diary 23 Apr. (1972) VI. 88 Every barr to end in a pricked Crochet and quaver. 1667 C. Simpson Compend. Pract. Musick 24 Here you have a Prickt-Crochet (or Crochet with a Prick after it). 1715 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 204 Prickt Letters never signify Moments, unless when they are multiplied by the Moment o either exprest or understood to make them infinitely little. 1778 J. Crompton Psalm Singer's Assistant Introd. p. lxxxiv A Pricked Crotchet is three Quavers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.¹a1348adj.²?a1425
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prickedadj.1

Compounds

† prickedadj.2

prickedadj.¹

† prickedadj.²