pricking
- n the act of puncturing with a small point
- v make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn
- v cause a stinging pain
- v raise
- v stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
- v cause a prickling sensation
- v to cause a sharp emotional pain
- v deliver a sting to
- While the details of the unrest were bizarre 21 people were arrested on suspicion of pricking pedestrians with tainted needles, according to state media the return of .
- Never did he seem to be hard pushed, for he always ran pricking and wagging his ears.
- It's worth remembering that the toothpicks were used at the same points involved in the standard acupuncture treatment that is, practitioners were not pricking their patients .