Dictionary

pricked en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /pɹɪkt/

Meanings

1. Punctured by small holes.
   • The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars. 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 19:
2. (figuratively, of ears) Listening carefully.
   • Make sure to keep your ears pricked and your eyes peeled.

Deriveds

pin-pricked · unpricked · uppricked

Relateds

prick up one's ears

Synonyms

pierced · punctured

pricked en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /pɹɪkt/

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of prick
   form of prick