Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet PRICK

Definition av PRICK

1. stick, styng
2. sting
3. tagg
4. sticka
5. stinga
6. pricka av
7. (vulgärt) pitt
8. (bildligt) utse, peka ut

Exempel på hur man kan använda PRICK i en mening

• Pricking or prick out (the seedlings), referring to transplanting from seed tray into individual pots.
• Venous blood is obtained for lab work by venipuncture (also called phlebotomy), or by finger prick for small quantities.
• She sent Cupid to prick her with his arrow, forcing her to fall in love with a hideous creature as revenge.
• In a letter to Fanny Haworth, he wrote that the "sad disheveled form" of the girl "wherein I put, comprize, typify and figure to myself Mankind, the whole poor-devildom one sees cuffed and huffed from morn to midnight" had inspired a resolution in him to "keep my pact in mind, prick up my republicanism".
• This is all a ploy, however, as Adebisi takes a job in the AIDS ward as a means of obtaining blood from AIDS patient Robbie Gerth to prick Nappa undetected with an HIV-infected needle.
• Panufnik later mused on the nebulous nature of Soviet Realism, quoting a Polish joke of the time that it was "like a mosquito: everyone knew it had a prick, but no-one had seen it".
• ; brochure : from French brochure "a stitched work," from brocher "to stitch" (sheets together), from Old French brochier "to prick, jab, pierce," from broche "pointed tool, awl", ultimately from the same Gaulish root as "broach".
• By virtue thereof, it is true that the need for mutual warmth will be only imperfectly satisfied, but on the other hand, the prick of the quills will not be felt.
• He was a little prick" (italics added), leading to Pinter's final stage directions, as Victor "straightens and stares at" Nicolas, followed by "Silence" and "Blackout.
• According to British newspaper The Guardian he said, "I wouldn't call Mickelson a great player, 'cause I hate the prick".
• The image of prodding the reluctant or lazy creature made this a useful metaphor for sharp urgings, such as the prick of conscience, the nagging of a mate, or the "words of the wise," which are "firmly embedded nails" in human minds (Ecclesiastes 12:11-12).
• In December 2022, Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern was caught on a live microphone calling ACT New Zealand leader David Seymour "such an arrogant prick" after answering a question he had asked during a session of Parliament.
• "The prick over the I" (Danish saying meaning "the finishing touch", or "dot the i's and cross the t's" – Jytte Hilden, Former Minister of Culture).
• On 8 November Guy defended his party advertising attacking Dan Andrews for being a "prick", and the use of footage from antivax protests in Melbourne where protestors urinated on the Shrine of Remembrance and attacked police.

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