pricking
Speech parts
1. pricking - Noun
2. pricking - Verb
Meaning
of Prick
The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
Same as Nicking.
A sensation of being pricked.
The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick; also, the act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
Dressing one's self for show; prinking.
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Examples
There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitive-and getting away with it-is far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.
A Gentle Knight was pricking on the plaine.
By the pricking of my thumbs Something wicked this way comes.
Quite frankly, I'm tired of taking insulin and pumping my stomach every three days and pricking my finger and drawing blood out of it every day - it's a tedious, meticulous, annoying disease that never goes away. And I want to get rid of it like everybody else does.
I welcome this opportunity of pricking the bloated bladder of lies with the poniard of truth.
he gave the balloon a small prick