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Meaning prick meaning

What does prick mean?
Definitions in simple English

prick

A prick is an annoying or rude person, usually a man. Nobody cares, prick. A prick is a penis. A prick is a short pain from a small sharp object like a needle.

prick

If you prick something, it means that you pierce or poke it slightly. John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the nurse gave him an injection.

prick

make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample (= asshole) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous (= sting) cause a stinging pain The needle pricked his skin (= prick up) raise The dog pricked up his ears (= goad) stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick to cause a sharp emotional pain The thought of her unhappiness pricked his conscience (= pricking) the act of puncturing with a small point he gave the balloon a small prick (= cock) obscene terms for penis (= prickle) cause a prickling sensation (= sting) deliver a sting to A bee stung my arm yesterday (= scratch) a depression scratched or carved into a surface

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Conjugation prick conjugation

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prick · verb

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Simple sentences

I don't like eating breakfast in bed, because the crumbs prick me.
He's a real prick.
If you prick us, do we not bleed?
Tom is an arrogant prick.

Movie subtitles

You've made me prick myself, Byron.
No, by my troth, not long, for we cannot lodge or board a dozen or fourteen gentlewomen that live honestly by the prick of their needles but it will be thought we keep a bawdy house.
Go to. I would prick your guts a little, and that's the truth of it.
Pish for thee, Iceland dog. Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland.
Go prick thy face, and over-red thy fear, thou lily-liver'd boy.
What a prick! Now I'm hungrier than before.
Being a writer, I prefer to think that it wad a quirk of fate. a mere prick of a thorn. that laid the great man low.
Well, we prick out some red terr around and make a big meal out of it.
The Princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty, beloved by all who know her. But. before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. and die.
Sweet Princess, if through this wicked witch's trick. a spindle should your finger prick, a ray of hope there still may be in this, the gift I give to thee.
A flower can't prick its finger.
Prick up your ears, Rouch!
I thought I'd prick his arm and make him drop me.
I'm the biggest prick alive not to have foreseen that one.
I dreamed I was selling my bar, and the prick wouldn't negotiate!
The last time this witch went to a party she made the princess prick her finger and fall asleep for 100 years.
Stupid prick!
You prick!
You behaved like an absolute prick.
But. before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday. she shall prick her finger. on the spindle of a spinning wheel. and die!
If through this wicked witch's trick. a spindle should your finger prick. a ray of hope there still may be in this. the gift I give to thee.
Don't you see? A flower can't prick its finger.
Oh, she'd make a lovely flower. Don't you see? A flower can't prick its finger.
Every time I say that, her ears prick up.
I would prick your guts a little, and that's the truth of it.
Thou prick-ear'd cur of Iceland!
Fifteen years she will live with your gifts, but on her fifteenth birthday, she will prick her finger with a spindle and will die.
Prick It!
Fine. Prick up your ears.
But. before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. and die.
Hey, you prick!
Prick!
Did Alexandre prick his finger?

News and current affairs

Interest rates are too blunt an instrument, and risk damaging the wider economy when used to prick a housing bubble, as recent research by BOE Deputy Governor Charlie Bean has shown.
With risk assets' long-term valuation falling and pressure to prick price bubbles rising, China's capital reserves will be insufficient to refinance the developed countries' debts cheaply.
The results amounted to little more than a pin prick.
The traditional view, notably shared by former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, is that any attempt to prick financial bubbles in advance is doomed to failure.
But if they try to prick bubbles early on with higher interest rates, they will crash bond markets and kill the recovery, causing much economic and financial damage.

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