prick
Needle's small injury
To prick is to pierce with a fine point or to cause a sharp localized pain: She pricked her finger on the needle.
A prick is such a puncture or the sensation it causes.
To prick up your ears is to listen attentively, like a dog whose ears rise at a sound.
In vulgar slang, prick means penis and serves as a sharp insult for a contemptible man: Her ex-husband is a real prick.
The insult implies someone mean and penetrating—the puncture sense bleeding into character.
Sharp wound from insect
- tingleSlight stinging sensation
- sharp painAcute bodily distress
- twingeBrief, sharp sensation
- pangBrief sharp sensation
needle-like · burning · pinch · smarting · bite · nip · jolt · stab
Sharp rise or point
- spineColumn of vertebrae
- barbBackward-pointing spike
- needlePointed implement for sewing
- pointExact location or meaning
quill · bristle · burr · spicule · prong · spur · thistle · bramble
pierce
Make hole through
perforate · puncture · needle · pin · stick · lance · penetrate · skewer · impale · bore
sting
Sharp wound from insect
- tingleSlight stinging sensation
- sharp painAcute bodily distress
- twingeBrief, sharp sensation
pang · needle-like · burning · pinch · smarting · bite · nip · jolt · stab · discomfort
spike
Sharp rise or point
point · quill · bristle · burr · spicule · prong · spur · thistle · bramble · nettle
jerk
Abrupt pulling motion
wanker · tosser · git · creep · scumbag · douchebag · sleazeball · cad · louse · heel
penis
Male reproductive organ
cock · dick · pecker · dong · manhood · weenie · wiener · willy · peter · knob
- stimulistimulus, sensation, impulse, cue, trigger
- injuriesbruise, fracture, sprain, fractures, concussion
- bodily sensationspain, ache, tingling, burning, numbness
- piercingpierce, piercing, puncture, puncturing, stab
- sensationstaste, touch, smell, sound, pain
- sharp painsstab, stabbing, stabbing pain, jab, pierce
- prick upRaise alertly
- pricks up one's earsBegins listening alertly
- prickly pearSpine-covered cactus, edible fruit
- prickly heatSweat-related skin rash
- pricked ears
- finger prickSmall puncture for sampling
prickly, prickle, pricked, prickles, pricking, pricks, prickled, prickling, prickliness