Prickle

Definition: Prickle

Prickle

Noun

1. A sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf.

Verb

1. Cause a prickling sensation.

2. Cause a tingling sensation.

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

Date "prickle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Health

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

Synonyms: Prickle

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: Prickle

Books

• Prickle Jones (reference)

• Prickle Says I'm Sorry (reference)

• The World of Holly Prickle (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Prickle [CD/12"] [CD-SINGLE] (reference)

• Prickle [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Expression using "prickle": prickle cell. Additional references.

Beginning with "prickle": prickle-ball, prickle-cell, prickle-weed.

Afrikaans

angel (hook, sting). (various references)

Albanian

therje (acuteness, butchery, mordacity, prick, slaughter, sting, throat cutting, tingle), shpoj (bore, broach, drill, drive, flesh, hole, impale, jab, perforate, Pierce, pink, poke, prick, punch, puncture, run through, Spike, spit, stab, stick, sting), shpohem (bore, puncture), sëmbim (grip, pang, prick, stab, twinge), gjemb (barb, blackthorn, pricker, spine, sticker, thorn). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نمل (ant, tingle), ‏نقر (drum, flip, gouge, peck, percuss, plunk, tap, tapping), ‏نخس (prick, prod, punch), ‏وخز (jab, jabbing, pang, sting, thrusting, tickling, twinge), ‏حكة (itch), ‏خز (prick, twinge), ‏أزعج (ail, annoy, beset, bother, burn, discompose, disquiet, disrupt, distress, disturb, get in the way, get on smb.'s nerves, gig, gnaw, grate, hamper, harass, importune, incommode, inconvenience, infest, intrude, irk, irritate, jolt, molest, nag, niggle, obsess, offend, pain, peck, peeve, perturb, pester, plague, possess, put out, rasp, rattle, ruffle, saddle, torment, trouble, upset, vex), ‏ثقب (aperture, bore, broach, drill, hole, hull, orifice, peck, perforate, perforation, pick holes in smth., pierce, prick, punch, puncture, tear, vent), ‏شوكة (backbone, barb, fang, goad, pricket, spine, spur, thorn). (various references)

Bulgarian 

трън (prick, spine, thorn), шип (barb, calk, ferrule, journal, nib, prick, rough, spine, spur, thorn), гъша кожа (goose, gooseflesh, gooseskin, horripilation), настръхване (horripilation), бодвам (pink, pinprick, prick, prod, stick), бода (offend, prick, prong, stab, stick), бодил (prick, spine, thorn). (various references)

Czech

píchat (sting), trn (spine, thorn), osten (prick, quill, Spike, spine, spur, sting, thorn). (various references)

Danish

trykfølsom celle (heckel cell, prickle cell), stratum spinosum-celle (prickle cell), stratum spinosum (prickle-cell layer, prickle-cell layer of epidermis, spinous layer of epidermis, stratum filamentosum, stratum spinosum, stratum spinosum epidermidis). (various references)

Dutch

prikkel (impetus, incitement, stimulus, sting), pen (feather, pen, plume, sting), stekel (sting), angel (hook, sting). (various references)

Finnish

piikki (barb, fling, prick, prong, spike, spine, sting, taunt, thorn, tooth), oka (spine, thorn), oas (thorn). (various references)

French

piquer (prick), piquant (prickly), picoter, picotement, percer (prick), fourmiller, épine (pricker). (various references)

Frisian

angel (fishing rod, sting). (various references)

German

stechen (be prickly, beat down, bite, check out, clock in, clock on, cut, engrave, jab, kill, pang, pick, Pierce, prick, puncture, ring in, run off, spear, stab, stick, sting, take, take the trick, twinge), Stachel (barb, goad, Pike, prick, quill, Spike, spine, spur, sting, thorn). (various references)

Greek 

κεντώ (embroider, filigree, goad, jab, nettle, nip, pick, pique, poke, prick, prod, puncture, spur, stick, twinge, velicate), σουβλίζω (impale, skewer), προκαλώ φαγούρα, άκανθα (spine, thorn), αγκάθι (spine, thistle, thorn), οξύ άκρο (cusp), διαστίζω (dapple). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"קרר, שך (prick, thorn), קוצית. (various references)

Hungarian

tövis (drift, mandrel, mandril, prick, pricker, spine, thorn), tüske (barb, beard, bristle, bur, burr, dolly, prick, pricker, spike, spine, thorn), bizsergés (buzz, on pins and needles, pins and needles, tingle). (various references)

Indonesian

menusuk (prick, prod, puncture), duri (barb, bur, fish bone, spine, thorn). (various references)

Italian

pungiglione (dart, sting). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

刺状突起 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しじょうとっき. (various references)

Manx

jialgaghey (pin, pinning), caulg (barb, beard of barley, bristle, testiness, truculence), broddey (goad, jab, nudge with nose, poke, prick, probe, rouse, stir up). (various references)

Pig Latin

icklepray.(various references)

Portuguese

pua (auger, drill, gaff, prick, spike, wimble), ponta (beak, crampon, cusp, jot, neb, nib, point, sparable, stub, summit, tab, tine, tip), picar (bite, chop, goad, hack, hag, hash, jab, mince, pick, pique, point, prick, punch, spall, stab, stick, sting, swot, tingle), formigar (abound, crawl, creep, swarm, tingle), ferrão (dart, prick, sting), bico (beak, bill, neb, nib, peak). (various references)

Romanian

perfora (clip, drill, perforate, Pierce, prick, punch, thrill), ustura (bite, blister, burn, prick, smart, sting), ghimpos (biting, cruel, spiny, thorny), ghimpe (bur, burr, prick, thorn), gãuri (bore, drift, drill, Gore, hole, perforate, Pierce, pink, pounce, prick, puncture, spring, vent), înţepa (bite, prick, puncture, stick, sting). (various references)

Russian 

шип (bur, burr, calk, cleat, gudgeon, male pin, prick, rough, spine, tenon, thorn, tongue). (various references)

Scottish

stob (a stake, fix in the ground, stab, thorn, thrust), sgolb (a splinter, splinter, wooden pin), cuilgean (awn of corn or barley), colg (fierce look, rage, sword. See calg, wrath), calg (awn, beard of corn, bristle), bior (pin, pointed, spit, stake, thorn). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

peckati (bait, smart, tingle), peckanje (pricking, tingle), trn (blackthorn, briar, sloe, thorn), brideti (prick), bodljica. (various references)

Spanish

púa (barb, jag, plectrum, quill, scion, spike, spine, tine, tooth). (various references)

Swedish

tagg (antler, fag, spike, thorn, tine), sticka (clear off, clear out, dig, hook it, jab, knit, knitting needle, knitting-needle, Lam, light out, match, pick, prick, prod, scoot, scram, spill, splinter, split, stab, stick, sting, take french leave, thrust, tingle, twinge, vamoose, welsh). (various references)

Turkish

sivri uç (cusp, jag, point, prong, spica, Spike), karıncalanmak (crawl, feel benumbed, formicate, go to sleep, have pins and needles, tingle), karıncalanma (formication, pins and needles, pitting, tingle), iğnelenme, iğnelemek (ironize, needle, pin, pin up, quip, stick), diken (barb, briar, brier, prick, pricker, quill, spicule, spine, thorn, thornbush, thorny plant, trichome), batırmak (bankrupt, break, bring to ruin, dip, immerse, jab, plunge, ruin, sink, stick, submerge, swamp). (various references)

Turkmen 

tiken (barb, thorn). (various references)

Ukrainian

шип (barb, bur, buzz, calk, nib, prick, tenon), колючка (barb, bur, prick, sticker, stickleback, thorn, tiddler), колоти (beat, chip, prick, prod), голка (needle, spine), підбурювати (abet, agitate, encourage, incite, instigate, prod, solicit), проколювати (broach, impale, peg, pin, prick, puncture, skewer). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cảm giác đau nhói. (various references)

Welsh

pigyn (stitch, thorn), draen (pricker, thorn). (various references)

aculei, spina, spinae, spinam, spinarum, spinas, spinis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "prickle": prickled, prickles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Prickle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: brockle, Pericle, pericula, periculo, pricke, prickel, pricken, Prickley, Procula, rickle, sprickle. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: licker, picker, pickle.

-2 letters: clerk, cripe, icker, liker, peril, piker, plier, price, prick, relic.

-3 letters: ceil, cire, clip, epic, keir, kelp, kepi, kier, lice, lick, lier, like, lipe, lire, peck, peri, perk, pice, pick, pier, pike, pile, plie, reck, rice, rick, riel, rile, ripe.

-4 letters: cel, cep, elk, ice, ick, ilk, ire, irk, kep.

+1 letter: pickerel, pluckier, prickled, prickles.

+2 letters: clerkship, pickerels, pricklier.

+3 letters: clerkships, kiloparsec, pincerlike, politicker, prickliest, stockpiler, superslick.

+4 letters: cupronickel, forcepslike, kiloparsecs, placekicker, politickers, prickliness, stockpilers.

+5 letters: computerlike, cupronickels, pickerelweed, placekickers, postcardlike, pumpernickel.