Definitions for pricks

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Spelling: [prik]

IPA: /prɪk/

Pricks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 107 anagrams from letters in pricks (cikprs).

Definitions for pricks

noun

1. a puncture made by a needle, thorn, or the like.
2. a sharp point; prickle.
3. the act of pricking:
4. the state or sensation of being pricked.
5. a sharp pain caused by or as if by being pricked; twinge.
6. the pointed end of a prickspur.
7. Slang: Vulgar. penis. an obnoxious or contemptible person.
8. Archaic. a goad for oxen.
9. Obsolete. a small or minute mark, a dot, or a point.
10. Obsolete. any pointed instrument or weapon.

Idioms

1. kick against the pricks, to resist incontestable facts or authority; protest uselessly:
2. prick up one's ears, to become very alert; listen attentively:

verb (used with object)

1. to pierce with a sharp point; puncture.
2. to affect with sharp pain, as from piercing.
3. to cause sharp mental pain to; sting, as with remorse, anger, etc.:
4. to urge on with or as if with a goad or spur:
5. to mark (a surface) with pricks or dots in tracing something.
6. to mark or trace (something) on a surface by pricks or dots.
7. to cause to stand erect or point upward (usually followed by up):
8. Farriery. to lame (a horse) by driving a nail improperly into its hoof. to nick:
9. to measure (distance, the size of an area, etc.) on a chart with dividers (usually followed by off).
10. Horticulture. to transplant (a seedling) into a container that provides more room for growth (usually followed by out or off).

verb (used without object)

1. to perform the action of piercing or puncturing something.
2. to have a sensation of being pricked.
3. to spur or urge a horse on; ride rapidly.
4. to rise erect or point upward, as the ears of an animal (usually followed by up).

Origin of pricks

before 1000; (noun) Middle English prike; Old English prica, price dot, point; (v.) Middle English priken, Old English prician; cognate with Dutch, Low German prik point

Examples for pricks

The prick of conscience she has alerts us to the fact that she is different from Francis—or just at a different stage of her life.

For those of you who believe in following the money, prick up your ears.

prick the bladder with a needle every so often,” she advises sagely, “to keep it from exploding.

Yeah, Richard could be a prick alright, a regular Nick Detroit.

And the hair along the back of Younger Brother began to prick.

prick them with a fork, and crimp or scollop the edges neatly.

However, if you think it best, we will prick on our steeds for another hour.

A 1992 episode of the sitcom imagined what it would be like if a bubble boy was actually kind of prick.

So they kept shouting to him, and even went so far as to prick him with their swords.

He drew him into a corner, on seeing Vuillet prick up his big ears.