prick

Meaning

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, vulgar) The penis.
9. (derogatory, slang) Someone (especially a male) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
10. (historical) 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. (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
2. (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
3. (transitive) To pierce or puncture slightly.
4. (transitive) To form by piercing or puncturing.
5. (obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
6. (transitive) 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. (dated, intransitive) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
10. (ambitransitive) 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. (transitive) To incite, stimulate, goad.
13. (archaic, intransitive) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
14. To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
15. (transitive) To make acidic or pungent.
16. (intransitive) To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
17. To aim at a point or mark.
18. (obsolete, usually) to dress or adorn; to prink.

Synonyms

stab

pierce

sting

puncture

cock

dick

jab

penis

prickle

stick

pecker

poke

bite

thrust

prod

member

perforate

twinge

goad

dong

pick

⛏️

willy

stitch

peter

spear

thorn

putz

scratch

dickhead

punch

👊

tool

bore

spur

phallus

peck

penetrate

asshole

shaft

tingle

bastard

cock up

incision

pique

pricking

cocksucker

motherfucker

skewer

irritate

drill

son of a bitch

Translations

cazzo

lul

pungere

piquer

pik

bite

stechen

zob

Schwanz

pinchar

picar

queue

Pimmel

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹɪk/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: prik

Inherited from Old English: prica

Cognate with Western Frisian: prik

Cognate with Western Frisian: prikke

Cognate with Dutch: prik

Cognate with Danish: prik

Cognate with Icelandic: prik

Inherited from Middle English: prikken

Inherited from Old English: prician

Cognate with English: pritch

Cognate with Dutch: prikken

Cognate with Middle High German: pfrecken

Cognate with Swedish: pricka

Cognate with Lithuanian: 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”).