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Prickle vs Trickle - What's the difference?

prickle | trickle |

In intransitive terms the difference between prickle and trickle

is that prickle is to feel a prickle while trickle is to move or roll slowly.

In transitive terms the difference between prickle and trickle

is that prickle is to cause someone to feel a prickle while trickle is to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously.

prickle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
  • A kind of willow basket.
    • (Ben Jonson)
  • (UK, obsolete) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.

    • Derived terms

    * prickleback * prickly

    Verb

  • To feel a prickle.
  • To cause someone to feel a prickle.

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    trickle

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A very thin river.
    • The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle .
  • A very thin flow; the act of trickling .
    • The tap of the washbasin in my bedroom is leaking and the trickle drives me mad at night.

    Verb

    (trickl)
  • to pour a liquid in a very thin stream, or so that drops fall continuously
    • The doctor trickled some iodine on the wound.
  • to flow in a very thin stream or drop continuously
    • Here the water just trickles along, but later it becomes a torrent.
    The film was so bad that people trickled out of the cinema before its end.
  • * 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
    • Her white night-dress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare chest which was shown by his torn-open dress.
  • To move or roll slowly.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2010 , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Their only shot of the first period was a long-range strike from top-scorer Ebanks-Blake which trickled tamely wide.}}

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