prick

Significat (English)

Noun

1. A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
2. An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
3. (obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
4. (obsolete) 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.
7. A feeling of remorse.
8. (slang) The penis.
9. (slang) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
10. A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
11. The footprint of a hare.
12. (obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
13. (obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.

Verb

1. To pierce or puncture slightly.
2. To pierce or puncture slightly.
3. To pierce or puncture slightly.
4. To form by piercing or puncturing.
5. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
6. To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
7. (obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
8. To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
9. To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
10. To make or become sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up.
11. Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
12. To incite, stimulate, goad.
13. To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
14. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
15. To make acidic or pungent.
16. To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
17. To aim at a point or mark.
18. (obsolete) to dress or adorn; to prink.

Synonyms

stab

pierce

sting

puncture

cock

dick

penis

jab

stick

prickle

poke

pecker

bite

member

thrust

prod

perforate

goad

twinge

pick

⛏️

dong

spear

peter

willy

thorn

putz

stitch

spur

bore

penetrate

punch

👊

phallus

dickhead

scratch

tool

peck

irritate

drill

cocksucker

shaft

asshole

skewer

motherfucker

son of a bitch

tingle

cock up

pique

pain

thrust into

bastard

pricking

incision

mother fucker

prick up

burn

gore

SOB

😭

hurt

inject

barb

broach

dent

shlong

shit

💩

lance

spine

quilt

smart

instigate

incite

prong

whoreson

wang

pickle

wound

stinging

slit

pang

make a hole

pry out

stave in

stick into

type of prickling pain

give a shot

terebrate

John Thomas

poke in

4

5

begin to ferment

3

pierce gore

administer injection

jamoke

tallywhacker

donger

love muscle

arrow

yutz

assassinate

awl

bitch

bitt

bodkin

braun

bugger

catch

center

centre

core

cunt

dagger

🗡️

dig out

dominant

dominate

dot

downtown

drive

embroider

filigree

fucker

goading

gorse

gouge out

grieve

impale

impel

indicate

insert

jag

johnson

joystick

🕹️

latch

lift

mark

murder

nettle

nip

perforation

pick off

pin down

pinhole

point

pole

probe

prompt

protrude

provoke

pud

rear

riddle

rise

rod

scorch

set

sheathe

shine

shithead

shot

soar

sod

spit

splinter

spring

stabbing pain

stake

stave

stick in

stimulate

strike

tap

tickle

tower

vellicate

wimble

cause pain

give an injection

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/pɹɪk/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: prik

Inherited from anglès antic: prica

Cognate with frisó occidental: prik

Cognate with frisó occidental: prikke

Cognate with neerlandès: prik

Cognate with danès: prik

Cognate with islandès: prik

Inherited from anglès mitjà: prikken

Inherited from anglès antic: prician

Cognate with anglès: pritch

Cognate with neerlandès: prikken

Cognate with alt alemany mitjà: pfrecken

Cognate with suec: pricka

Cognate with lituà: įbrėžti

In summary

From Middle English prik, prikke, from Old English prica, pricu (“a sharp point, minute mark, spot, dot, small portion, prick”), from Proto-West Germanic *prikō, *priku, from Proto-Germanic *prikô, *prikō (“a prick, point”), of uncertain origin, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *breyǵ- (“to scrape, scratch, rub, prickle, chap”).
Cognate with West Frisian prik (“small hole”), West Frisian prikke (“penis”), Dutch prik (“point, small stick", also "penis”), Danish prik (“dot”), Icelandic prik (“dot, small stick”).