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prickette

prickette noun: a woman or girl who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.

Noun

prickette (plural prickettes)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A woman or girl who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
    • Good-bye, all you little pricks and prickettes, good-bye. Click your heels, close your eyes, and say three times, 'There's no place like Washington, D. C.'1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, →ISBN, page 50
    • These are in all probability, the same little pricks and prickettes who eventually grew up to dominate the business and social scenes in the Philippines, and who perpetuated the rift between the haves and the have nots thus condemning the Islands to the never-ending insurgencies and revolutions...2007, Hank Miller, The Admiral's Son, →ISBN, page 128

Examples of prickette in a sentence

  • The only Margaret I know is the one in Dennis the Menace and she's a prickette.2008 -, Margaret Sartor -, Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s, →ISBN:
  • Have to stay a hundred feet away from the pricks and prickettes.2009, John Philpin, Dreams in the Key of Blue, →ISBN, page 129:
  • “Townies” (local residents) ridiculed “ru's” (a demeaning epithet for TM meditators) as obnoxious pricks and prickettes from California who invaded Fairfield like stuck-up know-it-alls.2018, Susan Shumsky, Maharishi & Me: Seeking Enlightenment with the Beatles' Guru, →ISBN:

Forms of prickette

pluralprickettes

Origin of prickette

From prick + -ette.

Questions about prickette

What does prickette mean?
Prickette means a woman or girl who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
How do you use prickette in a sentence?
The only Margaret I know is the one in Dennis the Menace and she's a prickette.
What part of speech is prickette?
Prickette is a noun.
What is the plural of prickette?
The plural of prickette is prickettes.

Words near prickette in the dictionary

  1. prickery
  2. pricket
  3. pricketh
  4. prickets
  5. Prickett
  6. prickette
  7. prickettes
  8. Pricketts
  9. prickface
  10. prickfaces
  11. prickhead

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