Prick vs Pecker - What's the difference?
prick | pecker |
A small hole or perforation, caused by piercing.
An indentation or small mark made with a pointed object.
(obsolete) A dot or other diacritical mark used in writing; a point.
(obsolete) A tiny particle; a small amount of something; a jot.
A small pointed object.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Acts ix. 5
The experience or feeling of being pierced or punctured by a small, sharp object.
* A. Tucker
(slang, vulgar) The penis.
(slang, pejorative) Someone (especially a man or boy) who is unpleasant, rude or annoying.
(now, historical) A small roll of yarn or tobacco.
The footprint of a hare.
(obsolete) A point or mark on the dial, noting the hour.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) The point on a target at which an archer aims; the mark; the pin.
* Spenser
To pierce or puncture slightly.
To form by piercing or puncturing.
(dated) To be punctured; to suffer or feel a sharp pain, as by puncture.
To incite, stimulate, goad.
* (rfdate), (Shakespeare), (Two Gentlemen of Verona) , ii. 7.
To affect with sharp pain; to sting, as with remorse.
* Bible, Acts ii. 37
* Tennyson
(archaic) To urge one's horse on; to ride quickly.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.1:
* 1881 , :
(transitive, chiefly, nautical) To mark the surface of (something) with pricks or dots; especially, to trace a ship’s course on (a chart).
(nautical, obsolete) To run a middle seam through the cloth of a sail. (The Universal Dictionary of the English Language, 1896)
To make acidic or pungent.
To become sharp or acid; to turn sour, as wine.
To aim at a point or mark.
To fix by the point; to attach or hang by puncturing.
* Sandys
(obsolete) To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark.
* Francis Bacon
* Sir Walter Scott
* Shakespeare
To make sharp; to erect into a point; to raise, as something pointed; said especially of the ears of an animal, such as a horse or dog; and usually followed by up .
* Dryden
(obsolete) To dress; to prink; usually with up .
(farriery) To drive a nail into (a horse's foot), so as to cause lameness.
(Webster 1913)
Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly:
* 2003 October 18 , The Economist , "
# Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes.
#* 1588 , Thomas Hariot, A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia , sig. C2:
#* 1782 , J. Scott, Poetical Works , page 119:
#* 1848 , Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society , 9 ii. 551:
#* 1948 , M. Carbery & E. Grey, Hertfordshire Heritage , page 120:
# (uncommon) Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion, particularly:
#* 1922 , Whittaker's Mechanical Engineer's Pocket Book , page 368:
## (weaving, obsolete) A picker, a shuttle-driver: the device which moves backwards and forwards in the shuttle-box to drive the shuttle through the warp.
##* 1807 , Thomas Johnson, British Patent ? 3023 (1856), 5:
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##* 1878 , Alfred Barlow, The History and Principles of Weaving by Hand and by Power , x. 136:
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## (telegraphy, historical) A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay.
##* 1858 June 13 , H.C.F. Jenkin, letter in Papers (1887), volume I, page lxxxvi:
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##* 1940 , Chambers's Technical Dictionary , 621/1:
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## , a rice mill.
##* 1802 , J. Drayton, A view of South Carolina, as respects her natural and civil concerns , page 121:
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##* 1949 , S. C. Murray, This Our Land: the Story of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina , page 41:
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# (zoology) A bird, particularly a member of the group of birds including the berrypeckers, flowerpeckers, and woodpeckers.
#* 1697 , (John Dryden) translating (Publius Virgilius Maro) as (Georgics) , iv:
#* 1884 January , George Allen in Longman's Magazine , page 294:
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##* 1883 , J.S. Stallybrass translating (Jacob Grimm) as Teutonic Mythology , volume III, page 973:
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##* 1980 January 20, Washington Post , m1:
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# An eater, a diner.
#* 1862 , C.C. Robinson, The Dialect of Leeds & Its Neighbourhood , page 383:
#* 1873 , Slang Dictionary :
#* 1894 , Mrs. H. Ward, Marcella , II. iv. v. 476:
# A bird's beak or bill.
#* 1891 , G. Sweetman, A Glossary of Words used by the rural population in the parish and neighbourhood of Wincanton, Somerset :
#* 1967 , H. Orton & M. F. Wakelin, A Survey of English dialects B, volume 4:
# (chiefly, US, regional, slang) Cock, dick; a penis.
#* 1902 , J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley, Slang and Its Analogues (London), V. 289/2:
#* 1936 , (Henry Miller), , page 142:
#* 1964 , American Folk Music Occasional , i. 12:
#* 1990 Fall , Paris Review , volume 32, number 116, page 171:
A nose.
Spirits, nerve, courage.
* 1845 September 15 , Times (London), 8/3:
* 1873 , Slang Dictionary :
* 1875 , , Trial by Jury , 4:
* 2003 , , (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) , page xii:
Short for peckerwood ("whitey; white trash")
* 1966 , R.G. Toepfer, Witness , xvi. 127:
* 1971 , D. Wells & S. Dance, Night People , i. 7:
Short for peckerhead ("dickhead; an aggressive or objectionable idiot").
* 2013 , Sean Moore,
(US) ("an electric motor's junction or terminal connection box, where power cords are connected to the winding leads").
As nouns the difference between prick and pecker
is that prick is a small hole or perforation, caused by piercing while pecker is someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill, particularly.As a verb prick
is to pierce or puncture slightly.prick
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) prik, prikke, from (etyl) prica, . Pejorative context came from prickers, or witch-hunters.Noun
(en noun)- Pins, wooden pricks , nails, sprigs of rosemary.
- It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks .
- I felt a sharp prick as the nurse took a sample of blood.
- the pricks of conscience
- the prick of noon
- they that shooten nearest the prick
Derived terms
* pricker * prickle * prickly * pricktease * prickteaserEtymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- John hardly felt the needle prick his arm when the adept nurse drew blood.
- to prick holes in paper
- to prick a pattern for embroidery
- to prick the notes of a musical composition
- (Cowper)
- A sore finger pricks .
- My duty pricks me on to utter that.
- Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart.
- I was pricked with some reproof.
- (Milton)
- At last, as through an open plaine they yode, / They spide a knight that towards them pricked fayre [...].
- Indeed, it is a memorable subject for consideration, with what unconcern and gaiety mankind pricks on along the Valley of the Shadow of Death.
- (Hudibras)
- (Hawkins)
- to prick a knife into a board
- The cooks prick it [a slice] on a prong of iron.
- (Isaac Newton)
- Some who are pricked for sheriffs.
- Let the soldiers for duty be carefully pricked off.
- Those many, then, shall die: their names are pricked .
- The courser pricks up his ears.
pecker
English
Noun
(en noun)Stress Test"
- Two studies of British civil servants, for example, suggest that those at the top of the heap are less stressed than those near the bottom. Work on other species, too, indicates that when it comes to pecking orders, the peckees are more stressed than the peckers .
- The women with short peckers' or parers,... of a foote long and about fiue]] inches in breadth: doe onely breake the vpper part of the ground to rayse vp the weedes, grasse, & old stubbes of corne stalkes with their rootes... For their corne,... with a ' pecker they make a hole, wherein they put foure [[grains, graines.
- Let sturdy youths their pointed peckers ply,
- Till the rais'd roots loose on the surface lie.
- A small narrow hoe or pecker'... A small ' hand-pecker .
- Pecker , small pickaxe for cutting furze.
- The upper end of the finger o'' carries a "pecker'''" ''p'', which consists of a hardened steel piece with a V edge. This '''pecker is engaged by any one of several steps or notches in a stepped block (m) carried by the rocking lever ''l .
- The shuttle... receives its motion from the peckers' connected with cords pulled by the ' pecking lever.
- When the shaft [of the draw-boy] rocks from side to side of the machine, it will carry the pecker ... with it.
- Click, click, click, the pecker is at work.
- Pecker , the small cylindrical pin which rises and falls in scanning the holes punched in a slip corresponding to the coding of the message.
- Rice mills, called pecker', cog, and water ' mills ... The first... so called, from the pestle's striking... in the manner of a wood pecker.
- After being thrashed by flail or whipped off, the rice was milled and dressed wholly by hand or by a crude machine called a ‘pecker ’.
- The Titmouse]], and the Peckers hungry [[brood, Brood.
- By far the greater number of modern birds belong to the... orders of the perchers, the peckers , and the birds of prey.
- The pecker was esteemed a sacred and divine bird.
- I've been feeding several downy ’peckers from my short-perched tubes for years.
- He's a rare pecker .
- Peck ... A hearty eater is generally called ‘a rare pecker ’.
- But I've been better iver since, an' beginnin' to eat my vittles, too, though I'm never no great pecker .
- Pecker , a bird's bill
- Q. What does a bird peck its food up with?... [Wiltshire] Beak, pecker .
- The penis... pecker .
- Ought to stand on (Times Square) with my pecker in my hand and piss in the gutter.
- There is a house down in New Orleans,
- They call it ,
- When you want to get your pecker spoilt,
- That's where you get it done.
- He has the biggest pecker in the pool , politically speaking.
- Mr. King... misstated the fact in saying that he had put a piece of lighted paper to the master's nose while asleep in that house; it was his hot pipe that he applied to the sleeper's nostrils, at the same time crying: Come, old chap, keep your pecker up .
- Pecker''''', ‘' keep your Pecker up ’,... literally, keep your beak and head well up, ‘never say die’.
- Be firm, my moral pecker .
- Fred and I managed to keep our peckers up somehow.
- These peckers know that as well as me.
- Those cats wouldn't let us get five feet from the Y.M.C.A.]] Like real peckers , they'd say, ‘If I had you [[w:American South, down South.’
"Sat Phone Black Op" in Outside the Wire , 41:
- Goddammit! I give you peckers an inch and you automatically take a mile