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Definition: Prickling |
PricklingAdjective1. Causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks; "a prickling blush of embarrassment"; "the tingling feeling in a foot that has gone to sleep"; "a stinging nettle"; "the stinging windblown sleet". Noun1. A prickling somatic sensation as from many tiny pricks. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prickling" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Note: Prickling \Prick"ling\, adjective. Prickly. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: PricklingSynonyms: stinging (adj), tingle (n), tingling (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Prickling |
| English words defined with "prickling": prick, prickle ♦ stinging ♦ tingle, tingling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prickling": paresthesias. (references) |
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Health | Restless legs syndrome (RLS), a familial disorder causing unpleasant crawling, prickling, or tingling sensations in the legs and feet and an urge to move them for relief, is emerging as one of the most common sleep disorders, especially among older people. (references) | |
Paresthesia is a term that refers to an abnormal burning or prickling sensation which is generally felt in the hands, arms, legs, or feet, but may occur in any part of the body. The sensation, which arises spontaneously without apparent stimulus and is usually not painful, may also be described as tingling or numbness, skin crawling, buzzing, or itching. (references) | ||
Symptoms such as neck pain may be present directly after the injury or may be delayed for several days. In addition to neck pain, other symptoms may include neck stiffness, injuries to the muscles and ligaments (myofascial injuries), headache, dizziness, abnormal sensations such as burning or prickling (paresthesias), or shoulder or back pain. In addition, some people experience cognitive, somatic, or psychological conditions such as memory loss, concentration impairment, nervousness/irritability, sleep disturbances, fatigue, or depression. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Prickling" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 64.71% of the time. "Prickling" is used about 34 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 64.71% | 22 | 74,468 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 23.53% | 8 | 124,375 |
| Noun (singular) | 11.76% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 34 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "prickling"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | stechenden (pricking). (various references) | ||||||||||
Indonesian | rangsangan (stimulation). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | チクチク痛む (sodium cyclohexylsulfamate, tale telling, ticket, titanium, to prickle, type of prickling pain), チクソ性 (thixotrophy, type of prickling pain). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | チクチク (type of prickling pain), チクリ (tale telling, type of prickling pain). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | icklingpray picazón (irritation, itch, prickle), hormigueo (itching, pins and needles, pricking, tingle). (various references) | ||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Prickling" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bricklin, pericline, prickings, princeling, reckling, Rickling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "prickling" (pronounced 'Prick"ling'): Airling, Bantling, Bardling, Birdling, Cageling, Catling, Chickling, Courtling, Cringeling, Cutling, Dearling, Decolling, Dwarfling, Fiveling, fledgeling, Flockling, Fopling, foundling, Fourling, Furzeling, Gesling, Gnatling, gosling, groundling, Homeling, Lordling, Manling, Meazling, Merling, Mestling, Monthling, Moonling, Morling, Mortling, Nerfling, Nursling, Oakling, Popeling, Porkling, Princeling, Proudling, Punkling, Rashling, Reckling, Reedling, ridgeling, Rockling, sapling, Scabling, schilling. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-i-k-l-n-p-r" | |
-1 letter: pickling, pricking. | |
-2 letters: licking, picking, pricing, ricking. | |
-3 letters: inclip, irking, liking, piking, piling, ricing, riling, riping. | |
-4 letters: cling, clink, icing, iring, lipin, piing, plink, prick, prink, ricin. | |
-5 letters: clip, gink, girl, girn, grin, grip, kiln, king, kirn, lick, ling, link, liri, nick, pick, piki, pili, ping, pink, pirn, prig, rick, ring, rink. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 69 63 6B 6C 69 6E 67 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. .. -.-. -.- .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01101001 01100011 01101011 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r i c k l i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0069 0063 006B 006C 0069 006E 0067 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508475697778758073 |
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