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prickling

prickling is the present participle and gerund of prickle.

Meaning of prickle

Verb

prickle (third-person singular simple present prickles, present participle prickling, simple past and past participle prickled)

  1. (intransitive) To feel a prickle.
  2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel a prickle; to prick.
    • Guilt prickled me. It was about to get much worse.2014, J. S. Eades, Promises and Other Broken Things, page 400

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Noun

prickling (plural pricklings)

  1. A sensation that prickles.
    • The patient reported intermittent pricklings down his right-hand side.

Forms of prickling

pluralpricklings

Questions about prickling

What does prickling mean?
Prickling means a sensation that prickles.
What is prickling the present participle and gerund of?
Prickling is the present participle and gerund of prickle.
What part of speech is prickling?
Prickling is a noun.
What is the plural of prickling?
The plural of prickling is pricklings.

Words near prickling in the dictionary

  1. pricklier
  2. pricklies
  3. prickliest
  4. prickliness
  5. pricklinesses
  6. prickling
  7. pricklingly
  8. pricklings
  9. pricklouse
  10. prickly
  11. prickly ash

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