prickle
verb1
To feel a prickle.
2
To cause (someone) to feel a prickle; to prick.
- Guilt prickled me. It was about to get much worse.2014, J. S. Eades, Promises and Other Broken Things, page 400:
- Derived terms
- pricklingly
prickle
noun/ˈpɹɪkəl/
2
A small, sharp pointed object similar to the true prickle, such as a thorn.
- The plants that have prickles are, thorns, black and white, briar, rose, lemon-trees,[…]1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VI. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
3
A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
4
A kind of willow basket.
- If I had but a pottle of Sacke, like a sharp prickle, / To knock my nose against when I am noddingc. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 80:
- 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.1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:
6
Collective A group of hedgehogs or porcupines.
- Derived terms
- aprickle, prickleback, prickle cell, pricklefish, prickleless, pricklelike, prickler, pricklesome, pricklet, prickly