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Pricking vs Tricking - What's the difference?

pricking | tricking |

As verbs the difference between pricking and tricking

is that pricking is while tricking is .

As nouns the difference between pricking and tricking

is that pricking is the act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point while tricking is dress; ornament.

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)

    tricking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • dress; ornament
  • * 1599 , , IV. iv. 77:
    • Go get us properties / And tricking for our fairies.