different between prickleback vs prickle

English

Etymology

prickle +? back

Noun

prickleback (plural pricklebacks)

1. Any of the fish in the family Stichaeidae.
2. The stickleback

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??k?l/

Noun

prickle (plural prickles)

1. A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.

   • The plants that have prickles are, thorns, black and white, briar, rose, lemon-trees, […]

2. A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
3. A kind of willow basket.
   • Template:RQ:Jonson LP

     I'd but a pottle of sack, like a sharp prickle,
     To knock my nose against when I am nodding
4. (Britain, obsolete) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.

Derived terms

• prickleback
• prickly

Translations

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.
   • 2014, J. S. Eades, Promises and Other Broken Things (page 400)

     Guilt prickled me. It was about to get much worse.

Translations

Anagrams

• pickler

German

Pronunciation

Verb

prickle

1. inflection of prickeln:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative