prick

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As in succession the sensitive sole, the plantar aponeurosis, the navicular bursa, the navicular bone, or the pedal articulation is injured, so with each step deeper of the prick is the severity of the case increased The shape of the penetrating object may also be considered.

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  1. noun The act of piercing or pricking.
  2. noun The sensation of being pierced or pricked.
  3. noun A persistent or sharply painful feeling of sorrow or remorse.

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  • She was called a prick-tease though she was anything but, since she informed her dates of her boundaries. —  F ;SF; - vol 092 issue 04 - April 1997
  • I saw it dwindle to a pin-prick, and then Joscelin touched my cheek, wondering. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
  • "The surface so delicate, the action so easy, yet the frame of steel He left Mrs. Gresham to her correspondence and went out of the house; wondering as he walked if she wanted him to do the same thing his mother wanted, so that her words had been intended for a prick--whether even the two ladies had talked over their desire together. —  The Tragic Muse
  • Whatever you tell me will be a pin-prick, and I have had swords in my heart I am sorry," began Beatrice Don't--do you suppose I care for a girl's sorrow! —  The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
  • He again commenced to birch him, stopping for a moment to rub his testicles and prick with eau de cologne The master's prick was again furiously erect, so throwing the birch down again he took a small pot of cold cream and produced an implement somewhat resembling an artificial prick (it was in fact a dildo), which he plentifully rubbed with the ointment, then taking more on his finger, approached the boy, and pressing apart the cheeks of his bottom, began to anoint the tight, wrinkled bumhole with it, gradually inserting his finger further and further inside. —  The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies
 

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stab ·  bastard ·  jab ·  sonofabitch ·  scratch ·  jerk ·  asshole ·  flicker ·  nip ·  sting ·  throb ·  twitch

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prick:   pricks ·  pricking ·  pricked
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English prica, puncture.

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  1. from Middle English prik, pryk, prikke, prike, preke, a point, a sting, from Anglo-Saxon prica, pricu, a sharp point, usually a minute mark, point, dot, a very small portion, prick, = Middle Dutch prick, Dutch prik, a prick, puncture, = Middle Low German pricke, Low German prik, a point, prick, spear, prickle, = German pricke, prick = Icelandic prik = Danish prik = Swedish prick, a prick, dot, mark (cf. deriv. (partly diminutive) prickle); perhaps akin (with loss of orig. initial s) to Irish sprichar, a sting, Sanskrit prishant, speckled, also a dot, and so to English sprinkle: see sprinkle. The Old Spanish priego, Portuguese prego, a nail, are from the Teutonic
  2. from Middle English pricken, prikken, prykien (preterit prikkede, pryghte), from Anglo-Saxon prician, priccan = Dutch prikken = Middle Low German pricken, Low German pricken, prikken, preken = German pricken = Icelandic prika = Danish prikke = Swedish pricka (cf. Dutch prikkelen = Low German prickeln, prikkeln, prökeln = German prickeln), prick; from the noun.
 

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