prickle

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When Peter read these poems he felt the hair of his scalp prickle, and his heart almost burst with a rapture that was agony But one can't exist on a collection of gems in a vile binding.

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  1. noun A small sharp point, spine, or thorn.
  2. noun A tingling or pricking sensation.
  3. transitive verb To prick as if with a thorn.
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  • All over my body hairs prickle, and I smell the ozone of a true sea. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2002
  • There were no yahoos from him, and as the stranger rode up and dismounted, Sweet pierced the man with that cactus-prickle stare of his. —  ElleryQueen'sMysteryMagazine,February2003
  • Her body was held fast by a delicious tension that made her skin prickle, her breasts swell and her nipples tighten with sudden urgent and embarrassing sensitivity. —  lynnegraham
  • Visions of the recycled Martian war machines from Robinson Crusoe on Mars swooping down at any second made his back prickle, waiting for the searing caress of a heat ray to incinerate him Maybe, if they could reach the return vehicle in time, there was an infinitesimal chance they might get back into orbit again before it was too late. —  AnalogSFF,November2007
  • He shook his head and rubbed away the uneasy prickle, attributing it to fancy. —  NOBODY'S DARLING
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tingle ·  twinge ·  prickling ·  undercurrent ·  frisson ·  trickle ·  stirring ·  tickle ·  shiver ·  jolt ·  spurt ·  flicker
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English prikel, from Old English pricel.

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  1. from Middle English prikel, prikil (partly with loss of terminal s), from Anglo-Saxon pricele, pricle, pricel, also pricels (= Dutch prikkel = Middle Low German prekel, Low German prickel, prikkel, prekkel = German prickel), a sharp point, from prica, pricu, a point: see prick.
  2. = Low German prickeln, prikkeln, prokeln = German prickeln, prick: see prickle, n., prick.
 

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