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Pricking vs Prickling - What's the difference?

pricking | prickling |

As verbs the difference between pricking and prickling

is that pricking is present participle of prick while prickling is present participle of prickle.

As nouns the difference between pricking and prickling

is that pricking is the act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point while prickling is a sensation that prickles.

pricking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xii. 18
    • There is that speaketh like the prickings of a sword.
  • A sensation that pricks.
    • the prickings of conscience
  • The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness.
  • (mining) A nicking.
  • The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick.
  • The act of tracing a hare by its footmarks.
  • (obsolete) Dressing oneself for show; prinking.
    • (Webster 1913)

    prickling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sensation that prickles.
    • The patient reported intermittent pricklings down his right-hand side.