prick /prik/

1. To pierce slightly with a fine point
2. To cause slight pain by doing this
3. (of eg the conscience) to cause pangs to
4. To pierce (a hole)
5. To urge with, or as if with, a spur or goad
6. To incite
7. (usu with up; of an animal) to erect, cock, stick up (its ears)
8. To insert (eg seedlings) in small holes (usu with in, out, etc)
9. To indicate with a prick or dot, to tick off, hence to select
10. To trace (eg a pattern) with pricks
11. To write out in musical notation (obsolete)
12. To pin (obsolete)
13. To deck out (obsolete)
14. To pick, poke or pluck out with a point (obsolete)
15. To stick all over or stud (with something; obsolete)
16. To pierce the skin of (a suspected witch) to find insensitive spots (historical)

1. To pierce, make punctures
2. To have a sensation of pricking, to smart
3. (of the conscience) to cause one pangs
4. (of wine) to begin to turn sour
5. (of an animal's ears; with up) to stand erect
6. To ride with spurs, or quickly (archaic)
7. To detect witches by the pricking method (historical)

1. The act, feeling, or stimulus of piercing or puncturing
2. A puncture
3. A mark or wound made by puncturing
4. The penis (vulgar sl)
5. A term of abuse for a person one dislikes or thinks a fool (vulgar sl)
6. A hare's footprint
7. Anything sharp and piercing, such as a thorn, spine, goad (obsolete or archaic)
8. A note in written music (obsolete)
9. A graduation on a dial (Shakespeare)
10. A dot (obsolete)
11. A point of space or time (obsolete)
12. An hour-point on a clock (Shakespeare)
13. A point, peak, acme (Spenser)
14. The centre of an archery target (obsolete)
15. A mark or target (obsolete)

prickˈer noun

1. A piercing instrument
2. A witch-finder
3. A light horseman
4. A priming wire

prickˈing noun and adjective

prickˈ-eared adjective

Having erect or noticeable ears

• unknowablenesses
• unknowables
• unknowing
• unknowingly
• unknowingness
• unknowingnesses
• unknown
• unknownness
• unknownnesses
• unknown quantity
• unknowns
• unlabelled
• unlaborious
• unlaboured
• unlabouring
• unlace
• unlaced
• unlaces
• unlacing
• unlade
• unladed
• unladen
• unlades
• unlading
• unladings