Definitions for prickle

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prickle prick·le

Spelling: [prik-uh l]

IPA: /ˈprɪk əl/

Prickle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in prickle (ceiklpr).

Definitions for prickle

noun

1. a sharp point.
2. a small, pointed process growing from the bark of a plant.
3. a sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal; a spine.
4. a pricking sensation.

verb (used with object)

1. to prick lightly.
2. to cause a pricking or tingling sensation in.

verb (used without object)

1. to tingle as if pricked.

Origin of prickle

before 950; Middle English prykel (noun), Old English pricel. See prick, -le

Examples for prickle

The boy was brave, but as he saw that row of fiery orbs he felt his flesh creep and his hair began to prickle.

The sun crept up his leg and his kneecap began to prickle pleasantly under the linen trousers.

The proof that she could smote suddenly across the ridge of one's spine like the prickle of a mild electric shock.

Variable œdema of the prickle layer and of the cutis is found.

It bears a round Bur, with a sort of prickle, which is the Seed.

A gasp of amazement, a prickle, a shudder, ran over the skin of that susceptible assembly.

Claire had held one position of thought for so long that it made her hurt and sting and prickle even to think of moving.

The compass was neatly contrived of the cup of an acorn, through the bottom of which ran a hedgehog's prickle.

When he comes to burn your prickle off, I will slip it into your mouth.

But it wasn't the floating mass which drew a gasp from Forrester, and caused Lawton's scalp to prickle.