"Prickles" Natural Recordings by Native Speakers
Prickles refer to small, sharp, and hard projections or spines on the skin of certain fruits, such as a cactus, or the skin of animals, such as hedgehogs. They can also refer to the uncomfortable or irritating sensations experienced due to these projections. Additionally, in British English, prickles can refer to the spines on a hedgehog, as in "to catch a prickly on one's fingers."
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The cactus plant had sharp prickles that hurt when you touched them.
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The feeling of having your arm hair stand on end like little prickles is called goosflesh.
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The roses have beautiful flowers with thorns that are surrounded by soft prickles.
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The survivalist learned to navigate through the woodland by paying attention to the small prickles on the vines.
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After riding my bike on a low-five thorn punctured the tire with prickles on the side of the road
The word "pricking" has several meanings depending on the context. Here are a few:<br><br>1. The act of making a small hole or holes in something, especially with a needle or pin.<br>Example: "She began pricking the balloon to let the air out."<br><br>2. A painful or sharp blow or thrust, especially with the fingers or a needle.<br>Example: "The child got a pricking pain in her finger."<br><br>3. To note or mark something, especially with a number or symbol.<br>Example: "She pricked the cards to keep track of the scores."<br><br>4. To cause or produce a feeling of pleasure, enjoyment, or excitement.<br>Example: "The music pricked up their spirits."<br><br>5. A sharp, stabbing feeling or pain, especially a numbness in the skin caused by frostbite.<br><br>In botanical contexts, a pricking is also the process of transplanting seedlings into pots or small tubes to grow them on before planting outdoors.<br><br>Let me know if you have any further questions!
The quality of having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed or irritated; being irritable, touchy, or sensitive; sharp or prickly in nature or character.
Covered or spattered with small, sharp points, as brambles are, and hence feeling like this to the touch.<br><br>Example: "Her skin was pricked by the prickly thistles as she walked through the field."
A small, usually sessile, flat-bodied insect with a hard, chitinous body, segmented with six legs and usually bearing spines or cilia, that lives in damp places, especially in soil or among moss.