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pricklingly

pricklingly adverb: with a prickling action or sensation.

Adverb

pricklingly (comparative more pricklingly, superlative most pricklingly)

  1. With a prickling action or sensation.

Forms of pricklingly

comparativemore pricklingly
superlativemost pricklingly

Origin of pricklingly

From prickling + -ly.

Questions about pricklingly

What does pricklingly mean?
Pricklingly means with a prickling action or sensation.
What part of speech is pricklingly?
Pricklingly is an adverb.

Words near pricklingly in the dictionary

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

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