Prick

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.
 * I felt a sharp prick as the nurse took a sample of blood.
 * 1)  The penis.
 * 2)  Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
 * 3)  A small roll of yarn or tobacco.

Verb

 * 1)  To pierce or puncture.
 * John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood at his physical.
 * 1)  To urge, to spur, to goad, to incite.
 * My duty pricks me on to utter that. Shakespeare: Two Gentlemen of Verona, ii. 7.
 * 1)  To trace a ship’s course on a chart.
 * 2)  To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail. (The Universal Dictionary of the English Language, 1896)

Thesaurus
aculeus, acuminate, acumination, acute pain, afflict, aggrieve, agonize, ail, anguish, auger, barb the dart, be keen, birthmark, bit, bite, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, bore, borer, boring pain, brand, bristle with, broach, bruise, bugger, burn, cage, caste mark, chafe, chalk, chalk up, charley horse, check, check off, checkmark, cicatrix, cicatrize, convulse, corral, countersink, cramp, cramps, crick, crucify, cusp, cut, cut up, dapple, darting pain, dash, define, delimit, demarcate, discolor, discoloration, distress, dot, drill, drive, drove, earmark, egg on, empierce, engrave, engraving, enter, excite, excruciate, exhort, fester, fix, fleck, flick, flog, freckle, fret, fulgurant pain, gad, gadfly, gall, gash, girdle pain, give pain, gnaw, gnawing, goad, gore, gouge, gouge out, grate, graving, grieve, grind, gripe, griping, hack, harrow, hatch, have an edge, herd, hitch, hole, honeycomb, hurt, hurt the feelings, impale, impress, imprint, inflame, inflict pain, irritate, itch, jab, jag, jot, jumping pain, kill by inches, kink, lacerate, lance, lancinating pain, lash, lentigo, line, macula, make a mark, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, martyr, martyrize, mole, mottle, mucro, neb, needle, nevus, nib, nick, nip, notch, nudge, oxgoad, pain, pang, paroxysm, patch, pencil, penetrate, pepper, perforate, perforation, pierce, pinch, pinhole, pink, pinprick, pique, point, poke, polka dot, prickle, print, prod, prolong the agony, prompt, propel, punch, punch cattle, punctuate, puncture, put to torture, rack, rankle, rasp, ream, ream out, riddle, ride herd on, round up, rowel, rub, run through, scar, scarification, scarify, score, scotch, scratch, scratching, scum, seal, seam, seizure, sharp pain, shepherd, shit, shithead, shoot, shooting, shooting pain, sic, skewer, skunk, slash, slit, smart, snake, spasm, spear, speck, speckle, spike, spit, splash, splotch, spot, spur, stab, stabbing pain, stain, stamp, stick, stigma, stigmatize, stimulate, sting, stinker, stitch, strawberry mark, streak, striate, stripe, tap, tattoo, tattoo mark, thrill, throes, tick, tick off, tingle, tip, tittle, toad, tormen, torment, torture, trace, transfix, transpierce, trepan, trephine, turd, tweak, twinge, twist, twist the knife, twitch, underline, underscore, watermark, whip, whiplash, wound, wrangle, wrench, wring

Etymology 1
prica:, from. Cognate with West Frisian prik:, Dutch prik:, Icelandic prik:. Pejorative context came from prickers, or witch-hunters.

Etymology 2
From prikken:, from  prician:

Noun

 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Armenian:
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 * Polish: ukłucie
 * Spanish: ,


 * Afrikaans: peester
 * Arabic:, ,  أير
 * Belarusian:
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 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,   ,
 * Danish:
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 * Finnish:, ,
 * French: ; ; ; (slang); ;
 * German:
 * Greek: (pútsa)
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,  ,   おちんちん,  ぽこちん,  まら,  ちんぽこ


 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:, мандало,
 * Navajo:
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 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,  ,   писюн
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,  , verga
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (khuay)
 * Ukrainian:,  пісюн, прутень


 * French:, , , , ,

Derived terms

 * pricker
 * prickle
 * prickly
 * pricktease
 * prickteaser

Verb

 * Dutch:


 * Scottish Gaelic:

Noun
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 * 1) dot, small spot
 * Sista bokstaven i det svenska alfabetet är "ö", det vill säga ett "o" med två prickar över.
 * The last letter in the Swedish alphabet is "ö", that is, an "o" with two dots over it.
 * 1) guy, person; especially about a particularly nice or funny one
 * Det var en riktigt trevlig prick, det där.
 * That was a really nice guy, that.

Derived terms

 * mitt i prick - right on the spot

Related terms

 * pricka