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Meaning of PRICKLING

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a prickling somatic sensation as from many tiny pricks
  2. [adj]  causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks; "a prickling blush of embarrassment"; "the tingling feeling in a foot that has gone to sleep"; "a stinging nettle"; "the stinging windblown sleet"
 
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 Synonyms: painful, stinging, tingle, tingling, tingling
 
 See Also: pins and needles, somaesthesia, somatesthesia, somatic sensation, somesthesia

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Prick"ling\, a.
Prickly. [Obs.] --Spenser.
 

 

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