prick

Etymology 1
From, , from , , from , , from , , of uncertain origin, perhaps from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
 * 2) An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
 * 3)  A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
 * 4)  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) * 1768–1777,, The Light of Nature Pursued
 * the pricks of conscience
 * 1)  The penis.
 * 2)  Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
 * 3)  A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
 * 4) The footprint of a hare.
 * 5)  A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
 * 6)  The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
 * 1)  A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
 * 2) The footprint of a hare.
 * 3)  A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
 * 4)  The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
 * 1)  The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.

Translations

 * Bashkir: сәнске
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Danish:, brod
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Galician:, , lerca, guizo, pitela, racha, estádea
 * German:, ,
 * Irish: bior, dealg,, dealg, goineog,
 * Latin: stimulus
 * Maori: kātara
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: stob
 * Spanish:, ,


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: убождане
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Indonesian: tusukan
 * Macedonian: убод
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, , pinchazo


 * Afrikaans: peester
 * Arabic:, زُبْر, أَيْر
 * Bashkir: ҡутаҡ
 * Belarusian: хуй
 * Bulgarian: кур, хуй
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: lān-hut
 * Mandarin:, , , ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:, , , (slang), ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: usuk
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:, peler,
 * Irish: slat,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , , , ぽこちん, まら,
 * Latin: ,
 * Lithuanian: bybis
 * Macedonian: стап, мандало, кур
 * Malay:
 * Navajo: acho'
 * Northern Sami: cillu, návli
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: bod
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene: kurac
 * Spanish:, ,  , ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Udmurt: кульы
 * Ukrainian:, , пру́тень
 * Yiddish: שװאַנץ


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Faroese: lortendi, bakbeist
 * Finnish:
 * French: petit con,, , , ,
 * German:, ,
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Indonesian:, , ,
 * Limburgish:
 * Maori: raho
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:, ,
 * Spanish:, conchasumadre ,
 * Yiddish: שװאַנץ

Etymology 2
From, from , , from , , of uncertain origin; perhaps from. Cognate with dialectal 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, and possibly to 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To pierce or puncture slightly.
 * 2)  To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
 * 3)  To shoot without killing.
 * 4)  To form by piercing or puncturing.
 * 5)  To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
 * 6) * c. 1620,, letter of advice to Sir
 * Some who are pricked for sheriffs.
 * 1)  To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
 * 2)  To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail.
 * 3) To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
 * 4)  To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
 * 5)  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.
 * 6)  Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
 * 7)  To incite, stimulate, goad.
 * 8)  To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
 * 9) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
 * 10)  To make acidic or pungent.
 * 11)  To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
 * 12) To aim at a point or mark.
 * 13)  to dress or adorn; to prink.
 * 1)  To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3)  Usually in the form prick out: to plant (seeds or seedlings) in holes made in soil at regular intervals.
 * 4)  To incite, stimulate, goad.
 * 5)  To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
 * 6) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
 * 7)  To make acidic or pungent.
 * 8)  To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
 * 9) To aim at a point or mark.
 * 10)  to dress or adorn; to prink.
 * 1)  To incite, stimulate, goad.
 * 2)  To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
 * 3) To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
 * 4)  To make acidic or pungent.
 * 5)  To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
 * 6) To aim at a point or mark.
 * 7)  to dress or adorn; to prink.
 * 1)  To make acidic or pungent.
 * 2)  To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
 * 3) To aim at a point or mark.
 * 4)  to dress or adorn; to prink.
 * 1)  To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
 * 2) To aim at a point or mark.
 * 3)  to dress or adorn; to prink.
 * 1)  to dress or adorn; to prink.
 * 1)  to dress or adorn; to prink.
 * 1)  to dress or adorn; to prink.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: قْرص
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κεντέω
 * Latin: pungō
 * Maori: oka
 * Quechua: t'uksiy, kichkay
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: stob
 * Spanish:
 * Thai:
 * Walloon:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Galician: ,
 * Irish: clip
 * Ottoman Turkish: دورتمك

Etymology
From, from , from the verb.

Adverb

 * 1) on the dot, exactly, sharp
 * 2) with careful aim (in order to hit something)
 * 1) with careful aim (in order to hit something)

Noun

 * 1) a dot, small spot
 * 2) a mark, a stain (in a record of good behavior)
 * 3) a guy, person; especially about a particularly nice or funny one
 * 4) a floating seamark in the form of a painted pole, possibly with cones, lights and reflectors
 * 1) a guy, person; especially about a particularly nice or funny one
 * 2) a floating seamark in the form of a painted pole, possibly with cones, lights and reflectors
 * 1) a floating seamark in the form of a painted pole, possibly with cones, lights and reflectors
 * 1) a floating seamark in the form of a painted pole, possibly with cones, lights and reflectors

Usage notes

 * Mainly used in conjunction with the adjectives or, but also with.
 * See also.