prickle

prickle

English

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• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹɪkəl/

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Noun

prickle (plural prickles)

1. A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “6. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], OCLC 1044372886:

     The plants that have prickles are, thorns, black and white, briar, rose, lemon-trees, […]

2. A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
3. A kind of willow basket.
   • c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher; Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972, Act III, scene ii, page 80:

     If I had but a pottle of Sacke, like a sharp prickle, / To knock my nose against when I am nodding

   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:

     The prickle is a brown willow basket, in which walnuts are imported into this country from the Continent; they are about thirty inches deep, and in bulk rather larger than a gallon measure; they are used only by the vendors of walnuts.

4. (UK, obsolete) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.

Derived terms

• prickleback
• prickly

Translations

A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn

Bulgarian: шип (bg) m (šip), бодил (bg) m (bodil), трън (bg) (trǎn) Chinese: Mandarin: 芒刺 (zh) (mángcì), 刺 (zh) (cì) Czech: trn (cs) m, osten m, bodlina (cs) f Danish: pig (da) c Dutch: prikkel (nl) m, stekel (nl) m, dorentje n Finnish: oka (fi), piikki (fi) French: épine (fr) f Georgian: ეკალი (eḳali) German: Stachel (de) m, Dorn (de) m Irish: colg m Japanese: とげ (ja) (toge) Low German: German Low German: Stickel m, Prickel m, Angel (nds) m, Steker m Maori: ngita, pūngitangita, pūtangitangi Ottoman Turkish: ایكنه‎ (iğne) Polish: kolec (pl) m Portuguese: ferrão (pt) m Romanian: spin (ro) m Russian: колю́чка (ru) f (koljúčka), шип (ru) m (šip) Scottish Gaelic: dealg f Spanish: aguijón (es) m, espina (es), púa (es) Vietnamese: gai (vi)

A tingling sensation of mild discomfort

Bulgarian: пробождане (bg) n (proboždane) Chinese: Mandarin: 刺痛 (zh) (cìtòng) Czech: brnění (cs) n, svrbění n Finnish: pistely (fi) Russian: колотьё n (kolotʹjó), пока́лывание (ru) n (pokályvanije)

Verb

prickle (third-person singular simple present prickles, present participle prickling, simple past and past participle prickled)

1. (intransitive) To feel a prickle.
2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel a prickle; to prick.
   • 2014, J. S. Eades, Promises and Other Broken Things (page 400)

     Guilt prickled me. It was about to get much worse.

Translations

to feel a prickle

Russian: испы́тывать (ispýtyvatʹ)/ощуща́ть (oščuščátʹ) покалывание (pokalyvanije)/колотьё (kolotʹjó) (ispýtyvatʹ/oščuščátʹ pokályvanjie/kolotʹjó)

to cause someone to feel a prickle

Dutch: prikkelen (nl) German: prickeln (de) Low German: German Low German: prickeln Russian: коло́ть (ru) impf (kolótʹ), уколо́ть (ru) pf (ukolótʹ)

Anagrams

• pickler

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Verb

prickle

1. inflection of prickeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative