Prick

Definition: Prick

Prick

Noun

1. (obscene) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous.

2. A depression scratched or carved into a surface.

3. Obscene terms for penis.

4. The act of puncturing with a small point; "he gave the balloon a small prick".

Verb

1. Make a small hole into; "The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample.".

2. Cause a stinging pain.

3. Of the ears of an animal, for example; "The dog pricked up his ears".

4. Prod or urge as if with a log stick.

5. Cause a prickling sensation.

6. To cause a sharp emotional pain; "The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience".

7. Of insects, scorpions, or other animals; "A bee stung my arm yesterday.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "prick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Prick

Attention

Revert to; watch; (expect), (take care of); hearken to, listen to; prick up the ears; have the eyes open, keep the eyes open; come to the point.

Curiosity

Verb: be curious; Adjective: take an interest in, stare, gape; prick up the ears, see sights, lionize; pry; nose; rubberneck.

Dissuasion

Disenchant,disillusion, deflate, take down a peg, pop one's balloon, prick one's balloon, burst one's bubble; disabuse (correction) a.

Expectation

Prick up one's ears, hold one's breath.

Motive

Enforce, force; impel; (push); propel; whip, lash, goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound, hurry on; drag; exhort; advise; call upon; press; (request); advocate.

Opening

Perforate, pierce, empierce, tap, bore, drill; mine; (scoop out); tunnel; transpierce, transfix; enfilade, impale, spike, spear, gore, spit, stab, pink, puncture, lance, stick, prick, riddle, punch; stave in.

Pain

Pinch, prick, gripe; (physical pain); pierce, lancinate, cut.

Physical Pain

Give pain, inflict pain; lacerate; pain, hurt, chafe, sting, bite, gnaw, gripe; pinch, tweak; grate, gall, fret, prick, pierce, wring, convulse; torment, torture; rack, agonize; crucify; cruciate, excruciate; break on the wheel, put to the rack; flog. (punish); grate on the ear. (harsh sound).

Sensations of Touch

Verb: itch, tingle, creep, thrill, sting; prick, prickle; tickle,Verb: itch, tingle, creep, thrill, sting; prick, prickle; tickle, titillate.

Sharpness

Point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum; needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin; prick, prickle; spur, rowel, barb; spit, cusp; horn, antler; snag; tag thorn, bristle; Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca.

Crosswords: Prick

Swedish (bulls eye, dot, fellow, fleck, pip, sharp, speck, tick).

The collosal prick even managed to sound magnanimous (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

You shot me, I can't believe it. They're giving you a medal for shooting me, you little prick! (Speed; writing credit: Graham Yost)

I said I'd give you the change when we ordered the Sno-Cones when we pulled up, so why don't you give me my sandwich and stop being a prick. (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

I'm an inconsiderate prick! (Liar Liar; writing credit: Paul Guay; Stephen Mazur)

You daft prick. (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

Nästa söndag ska jag måla en svart prick bättre (1988)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A descriptive guide to the manuscripts of the Prick of conscience (reference)

• Don't Prick Me, You Little Stick! (reference)

• Prick Up Your Ears (reference)

• Prick Up Your Ears Orton (reference)

• Prick Up Your Ears: The Screenplay (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Prick up Your Ears (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Prick (reference)

• Prick off the Old Block (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Devices are also being developed that can monitor blood glucose levels without having to prick a finger to get a blood sample. (references)

Hundreds of pain syndromes or disorders make up the spectrum of pain. There are the most benign, fleeting sensations of pain, such as a pin prick. (references)

A doctor should suspect malaria whenever a person who has been in the tropics recently or received a blood transfusion develops a fever and other signs which resemble “the flu.” A doctor or other health care worker will examine blood smears, taken from a finger prick, under a microscope. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "prick": pin prick ♦ prick down ♦ prick holes in ♦ prick in ♦ prick off ♦ prick oneself ♦ prick out ♦ prick the bubble ♦ prick up ♦ prick up one's ears ♦ prick up smb.'s ears ♦ prick with a needle ♦ prick with a spur. Additional references.

Beginning with "prick": Prick-eared, prick-ears, prick-line.

Ending with "prick": pin-prick, skin-prick.

Albanian

vrimë (aperture, bore, dump, ear, excavation, eye, eyehole, eyelet, gap, hole, leak, mesh, mortise, mouth, notch, notching, nozzle, open, opening, orifice, Peck, perforation, pinhole, puncture, recession, rent, shell-hole, slit, slot, tear, vent, venthole), trap (booby, cockeyed, Dick, ditch, Dong, dope, duffer, dumbbell, ferry, float, moron, pontoon, prune, raft, sap, sap-head, snare), therje (acuteness, butchery, mordacity, prickle, slaughter, sting, throat cutting, tingle), shpoj (bore, broach, drill, drive, flesh, hole, impale, jab, perforate, Pierce, pink, poke, prickle, punch, puncture, run through, Spike, spit, stab, stick, sting), shpim (boring, drilling, jab, perforation, poke, pricking, puncture, sinking, tingle), shkaktoj dhimbje, sëmbim (grip, pang, prickle, stab, twinge), ngreh (dress, pitch, set, wind up), majëz, më sëmbon, loqja (Dick, Dong), kar (Dick, Dong), ferrë (blackberry, blackthorn, thorn, thorny bush), dhimbje e mprehtë (smart). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقل نبتة من إلي, ‏نخس (prickle, prod, punch), ‏نخز (peck), ‏وخزة (stick), ‏تنتصب أذنا الحيوان, ‏طعنة (cut, hurt, stab, stick, thrust, twinge), ‏خز (prickle, twinge), ‏إنطلق بسرعة (breeze, clip, fleet, fly, lick, rocket, scat, scoot, scorch, scud, steam, tear away), ‏إستشعر ضيقا, ‏أداة مستدقة الطرف, ‏ثقب (aperture, bore, broach, drill, hole, hull, orifice, peck, perforate, perforation, pick holes in smth., pierce, prickle, punch, puncture, tear, vent), ‏رخي أذنه للسمع, ‏دبوس (pin, pinpoint). (various references)

Bulgarian 

никаквец (cuss, punk), игла (aiguille, needle, pin, pricker, quill, spine), пенис (pecker, penis, rod), пришпорвам (rowel, spur, urge on), пробивам (bore, break through, broach, hole, jump, nip, perforate, pip, rupture, scuttle, sink, smash in), бодил (prickle, spine, thorn), бода (offend, prickle, prong, stab, stick), бодвам (pink, pinprick, prickle, prod, stick), изострям се (taper), мъча (agonize, bedevil, excruciate, gnaw, martyrize, rankle, torment, torture, victimize, wring), убождане (pricking), никакъв човек (snipe), настръхвам (bristle), остен (gad, goad, prod), острие (blade, edge, knife, nib, point), шип (barb, calk, ferrule, journal, nib, prickle, rough, spine, spur, thorn), трън (prickle, spine, thorn), следа белег от убождане, убождам (pique), бодване (prod, puncture, stick). (various references)

Chinese 

刺 (assassinate, murder, pierce, stab, sting, thorn, thrust). (various references)

Czech

propíchnout (puncture), probodnout (impale, Pierce, Pike, pink, stab, stick, transfix), vyteèkovat, uhánìt (bowl along, rip, run, scud, speed, speed along, tear along), oznaèit (denote, describe, designate, highlight, indicate, inscribe, label, Mark, sign, signify, stigmatize, term), osten (prickle, quill, Spike, spine, spur, sting, thorn), hrot (apex, bit, head, Pike, point, Spike, tip), bodnutí (jab, stab, sting, stitch, thrust). (various references)

Danish

omplante (to prick out, to transplant). (various references)

Dutch

snikkel, pik, lul (bastard, block, chunk of wood, son-of-a-bitch), leuter, jongeheer (youngster, youth). (various references)

Esperanto

piko (spades, sting), kaco. (various references)

Faeroese

skapningur (creature), kynslimur mans. (various references)

Farsi 

زخم بقدرسرسوزن , باچیزنوک تیزفروکردن , شق (Inelastic, Stiff, Taut, Tough, Wooden), راست (Bolt, Erect, Right, Sheer, Straight, Straightforward, True, Upright, Wooden), ازردن (Afflict, Aggrieve, Ail, Annoy, Distaste, Goad, Grate, Gripe, Grit, Harrow, Harry, Hurt, Irk, Irritate, Lacerate, Mortify, Peeve, Rile, Tar), الت ذکور (Phallus), جزء کوچک چیزی , خراش دادن (Irritate, Rase), خراش سوزن , باسیخونک بحرکت واداشتن , خلیدن (Pierce), منظور (Intent, Intention, Purpose, Sake, Scope), سیخونک (Jag, Poke), تحریک کردن (Actuate, Agitate, Annoy, Arouse, Bestir, Edge, Egg, Excite, Fuel, Ginger, Goad, Hypo, Incense, Incite, Instigate, Motivate, Move, Pique, Prime, Provoke, Stimulate), تیغ (Bur, Thorn), نقطه (Ace, Dot, Iota, Jot, Mark, Part, Plot, Point, Speck, Speckle, Splotch, Spot, Stop), نقطه نت موسیقی , نیش (Bite, Nip, Sting, Tang, Tooth, Twinge), هدف (Aim, Butt, Cause, Goal, Mark, Object, Parrot, Point, Purpose, Scope, Sight, Target, Victim), خار (Barb, Bur, Burr, Goad, Jag, Teazle, Thorn). (various references)

Finnish

pisto (sting, stitch), pistellä (be sarcastic, sting), pistäytyä (bite, put, stick, sting), pistää (bite, pick, put, stab, stick, sting), piikki (barb, fling, prickle, prong, spike, spine, sting, taunt, thorn, tooth), lävistää (perforate, pierce, punch, puncture, stab). (various references)

French

piqûre, bitte. (various references)

German

Stachel (barb, goad, Pike, prickle, quill, Spike, spine, spur, sting, thorn), Stich (bite, engraving, grasp, hint, jab, lurch, pang, piercing pain, puncture, spades, stab, stab wound, sting, stitch, suggestion, taint, thrust, tinge, trick, twinge). (various references)

Greek 

κεντώ (embroider, filigree, goad, jab, nettle, nip, pick, pique, poke, prickle, prod, puncture, spur, stick, twinge, velicate), τρυπώ (bore, broach, drill, lance, prong, punch, puncture, riddle, spear, stave, stave in, sting, tap, terebrate, thrust, wimble). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"קור (needle, stab, stick, thrust), שך (prickle, thorn), ח�"ו�" (blade, cusp, fulcrum, quip), �"קיר�" (biting, insinuation, jab, stab, stabbing, sting, twinge), �"רבן (goad, spur, sting), צ� ין (sting, thorn). (various references)

Hungarian

tüske (barb, beard, bristle, bur, burr, dolly, pricker, prickle, spike, spine, thorn). (various references)

Indonesian

tusukan (jab, puncture), menusuk (prickle, prod, puncture), mencocok (fasten, pin, puncture, string). (various references)

Italian

cazzo (dick), pungere (bite, burn, pick, stab, sting, tingle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

刺す (to bite, to pierce, to pin, to prick, to stab, to sting, to thrust). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さす (reef, sandbank, sandbar, to apply moxa cautery, to bite, to catch, to graft, to insert, to light, to pierce, to pin down, to play, to point, to pole, to pour, to prick, to put in, to put up umbrella, to putout, to raise umbrella, to raisehands, to serve, to shine, to stab, to stick, to sting, to stitch, to strike, to thrust, to wear in belt), はりでさす (to prick with a needle). (various references)

Korean 

찌름 (Pinking, Poking, Pricking, Prodding, Spearing, stabbing, stinging). (various references)

Manx

broddey (goad, jab, nudge with nose, poke, prickle, probe, rouse, stir up), brod (goad, jab, nudge, spur, stimulus). (various references)

Pig Latin

ickpray.(various references)

Portuguese

pua (auger, drill, gaff, prickle, spike, wimble), picar (bite, chop, goad, hack, hag, hash, jab, mince, pick, pique, point, prickle, punch, spall, stab, stick, sting, swot, tingle), picão (pick, pickax, pickaxe), pênis (dig, dong, doodle, leather-head, penis, yard), morder (champ, nibble, nip, savage, snap), furar (bore, boring, broach, drill, fall through, hole, jab, perforate, pierce, punch, puncture, spit, stab, tap, thrust), ferrão (dart, prickle, sting), espinho (spine, splinter, stickleback, thorn, tittlebat), espadas (spade, spades, sting, swords), dar picadas em, caralho (dick, penis), atormentar com remorsos, alfinetar, aguilhão para o gado. (various references)

Romanian

pulã (Dick, Dong), perfora (clip, drill, perforate, Pierce, prickle, punch, thrill), penis (penis), ghimpe (bur, burr, prickle, thorn), împunsãturã (butt, cant, dig, jab, jeer, jest, pang, prod, stick, stitch, tack, thrust), înţepa (bite, prickle, puncture, stick, sting), înţepãturã (jeer, jest, parting shot, shaft, sting, twinge), îndemna (advise, charge, court, egg, exhort, goad, hunch, impel, incite, induce, needle, prod, prompt, punch, push, rouse, set smb. doing smth., spank, spur, stimulate, urge), înghimpa (goad), chinui (agonize, bait, bore, drudge, fester, grill, harass, Harrow, Harry, lacerate, martyr, martyrize, mortify, overdrive, persecute, pinch, plague, prey, rack, slave, tantalize, torment, torture, trouble, try, worry, wring), împunge (butt, jab, pink, pique, prod, sting, stitch, thrust), gãuri (bore, drift, drill, Gore, hole, perforate, Pierce, pink, pounce, prickle, puncture, spring, vent), ustura (bite, blister, burn, prickle, smart, sting), mustrare (dressing, lash, lecture, pi-jaw, rebuke, remonstrance, reprehension, reprimand, reproach, reproof, row, scolding, slur, snub, trim, trimming, wigging), se acri (sour), sfredeli (bore, drill, pounce, turn), stimula (abet, activate, actuate, brace, cheer, develop, dynamize, elate, Energize, enliven, excite, fillip, fire, gladden, goad, hop, incite, inspire, irritate, lash, motive, needle, pander to, pep, pep up, prompt, propel, provoke, push, quicken, rouse, sharpen, spur, stimulate, stir up, tickle, urge, whet), durere usturãtoare. (various references)

Russian 

укол (injection, jab, puncture, rapier thrust, sting), хуй, шип (bur, burr, calk, cleat, gudgeon, male pin, prickle, rough, spine, tenon, thorn, tongue), кольнуть (stab, thrust), колоть укол, острая боль от укола, острие (edge, nib, spearhead, spearheads, tine), наколоть (pin), делать пометки. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

penis (dick, pecker, penis), ubosti (stab, sting, thrust in), ubod (jab, lunge, stab, sting, thrust), obljubiti (screw), nabosti, brideti (prickle), žaoka (piercer, sting, stinger). (various references)

Spanish

pinchar (burn, goad on, irritate, jab, Nick, nip, prickle, prong, provoke, puncture, stimulate, sting, tap). (various references)

Swedish

sting (kick, punch, sting, twinge, zing), sticka (clear off, clear out, dig, hook it, jab, knit, knitting needle, knitting-needle, Lam, light out, match, pick, prickle, prod, scoot, scram, spill, splinter, split, stab, stick, sting, take french leave, thrust, tingle, twinge, vamoose, welsh). (various references)

Turkish

penis (Dick, Dong, joystick, knob, pecker, penis, Peter, phallus, rod, tool), iğne batırmak, delik (aperture, bore, cavity, den, hole, hollow, mortice, mortise, opening, perforation, port, prison, slot, stir, vent, ventage, venthole), delinme (perforation, puncture), delmek (bore, broach, dig into, dig through, drill, hole, make a hole in, perforate, pick, Pierce, pink, puncture, ream, ream out, Spike, stab, stave in, stick), diken (barb, briar, brier, pricker, prickle, quill, spicule, spine, thorn, thornbush, thorny plant, trichome), diken batırmak, diken batması, çük (joystick, knob, pecker, penis, phallus, rod), iğne (brooch, injection, jab, needle, pin, pintle, pointer, shot, spicule, spine, sting, stinger), yaralamak (bruise, chafe, hit, hurt, injure, lacerate, maul, pip, rasp, scotch, wound), iğneleme (dart, dig, pinning, pinprick, pointer, quip, rub, sarcasm), kalleş (heel, piker, rat, treacherous), listede işaretlemek (prick out), sızı (ache, discomfort, hurt, pain, pang, sting, throe), vicdanını sızlatmak, vurmak (bang, bat, beat, beat down, bruise, bust, catapult, catch, chime, clap, clip, clout, dash, deal, grass, gun, hit, impinge, inflict, kayo, knock, land, lay out, lay to, Lodge, Mall, nail, pack, percuss, pip, plant, plonk, plug, plunk, pound, pummel, punch, putt, ram, shoot, shoot off, slog, smash, sock, strike, stroke, stub, swat, swinge, switch, whack, zap), dikmek (bed, bed out, construct, crop, engraft, erect, fix, ingraft, lay down, needle, perk, perk up, plant, post, prick up, put stitches in, raise, rear, rest, rest on, rivet, seam, seam together, seam up, set, set out, set up, sew, sew up, sow, stitch up, suture, tailor, Upend). (various references)

Turkmen 

sanjamak, naяzalamak (stab). (various references)

Ukrainian

колючка (barb, bur, prickle, sticker, stickleback, thorn, tiddler), проколювати (broach, impale, peg, pin, prickle, puncture, skewer), прошивати вітрило, просвердлювати (perforate), підкувати (calk), залишати слід, вістря (barb, edge, nib, peak, pile, spearhead, spire), пришпорювати (spur), колотися, статевий член (pizzle), краяти, шип (barb, bur, buzz, calk, nib, prickle, tenon), шахрай (beat, bilker, charlatan, cheat, deceiver, doer, gambler, jockey, knave, phony, picaroon, racketeer, rascal, scalawag, scallawag, scallywag, shark, sharp, sharper, swindler), точка (point, punctum), спонукати (abet, actuate, cause, excite, impel, impulse, induce, motivate, motive, prod, prompt, provoke, push on, rouse, set off, spur, urge), укол (pricking, prod), колоти (beat, chip, prickle, prod). (various references)

Vietnamese 

vết chích (gab), vết châm, vết chọc mũi nhọn, sự chích (pricking, puncture), sự châm (pricking, puncture), sự chọc, sự cắn rứt, cái giùi (bradawl), cái gai sự đau nhói. (various references)

Welsh

pigo (peck, pick, sting), pigiad (sting). (various references)

aculei, conpuncti, conpunctum, conpungar, conpungimini, conpunxerunt, punctum, pungere. (various references)

sticel. (various references)

ponchonner. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prick": pricked, pricker, prickers, pricket, prickets, prickier, prickiest, pricking, prickings, prickle, prickled, prickles, pricklier, prickliest, prickliness, pricklinesses, prickling, prickly, pricks, pricky. (additional references)

Words ending with "prick": pinprick. (additional references)

Words containing "prick": pinpricked, pinpricking, pinpricks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Krick, paric, Parick, perick, perico, perik, prac, praik, preck, precn, pric, prica, prich, pricke, prics, prict, prijck, prik, prike, priki, Priko, primk, princl, Priok, prisci, prisk, procf, pruck, ptik, puick, puric, pyrgic, pyrick. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: pick, rick.

-2 letters: ick, irk, kip, kir, pic, rip.

-3 letters: pi.

+1 letter: picker, pricks, pricky.

+2 letters: peckier, pickeer, pickers, pickier, pockier, pricked, pricker, pricket, prickle, prickly, tripack.

+3 letters: crankpin, dropkick, gripsack, pickeers, pickerel, picketer, pinprick, pluckier, prickers, prickets, prickier, pricking, prickled, prickles, princock, tripacks.

+4 letters: clerkship, crankpins, dropkicks, gripsacks, nitpicker, panickier, pickaroon, pickeered, pickerels, picketers, pickproof, picnicker, piecework, pinpricks, pitchfork, prickiest, prickings, pricklier, prickling, princocks, puckerier, puckering, ragpicker, repacking, shipwreck, workpiece.