prickling
- n a somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles
- v cause a prickling sensation
- v cause a stinging or tingling sensation
- v make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn
- Along Chicago's volatile Northwest Side, boredom pangs were as palpable as the prickling humidity.
- Housman put most of his own skin-prickling stanzas into A Shropshire Lad ("When I was one and twenty"), published in 1896 at his own expense when he was seven and thirty.
- There is not a scene in which Sophie appears that is not excruciating (excrucifying?) starting with toilet training the phrase "tickling my prickling" occurs.