Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in English entries#PRICKLE

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɪkəl/Category:English 2-syllable words#PRICKLECategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PRICKLE

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

  Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#PRICKLE

Noun

prickle (plural prickles)Category:English lemmas#PRICKLECategory:English nouns#PRICKLECategory:English countable nouns#PRICKLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PRICKLECategory:Pages with entries#PRICKLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#PRICKLE

1. (botanyCategory:en:Botany#PRICKLE) A sharp, hard extension of the cortex and epidermis of some plants (such as roses), informally called a "thorn".
2. A small, sharp pointed object similar to the true prickle, such as a thorn.
   • 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:

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

     Category:English terms with quotations#PRICKLE

3. A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
4. 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, 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

     Category:English terms with quotations#PRICKLE

   • 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#PRICKLE

5. (UKCategory:British English#PRICKLE, obsoleteCategory:English terms with obsolete senses#PRICKLE) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.
6. (collectiveCategory:English collective nouns#PRICKLE) A group of hedgehogs or porcupines.

Verb

prickle (third-person singular simple present prickles, present participle prickling, simple past and past participle prickled)Category:English lemmas#PRICKLECategory:English verbs#PRICKLECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PRICKLECategory:Pages with entries#PRICKLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#PRICKLE

1. (intransitiveCategory:English intransitive verbs#PRICKLE) To feel a prickle.
2. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#PRICKLE) 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.

     Category:English terms with quotations#PRICKLE

     Category:Quotation templates to be cleaned

Anagrams

• Pickler, Pickrel, pickler

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

  Category:German terms with audio pronunciation#PRICKLE

Verb

prickleCategory:German non-lemma forms#PRICKLECategory:German verb forms#PRICKLECategory:German entries with incorrect language header#PRICKLECategory:Pages with entries#PRICKLECategory:Pages with 2 entries#PRICKLE

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