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語源

From 中期英語 prykkyl, prykyl, from 古期英語 pricel, pricels, pricle (“a prickle, sharp point, bit”), from a conflation of Proto-West Germanic *prikislī and *prikil (“prickle”). By surface analysis, prick +‎ -le. Cognate with West Frisian prikel (“goad, prickle”), Dutch prikkel (“sting, prickle, stimulus”), German Low German Prekel (“wooden stick, poker”), Saterland Frisian prikkelje (“to propel, spur on, goad”). First attested in the 古期英語 period.

発音

• IPA: /ˈpɹɪkəl/

名詞

prickle (plural prickles)

1. A sharp and often small point, especially that of a plant; a thorn.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VI. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     The plants that have prickles are, thorns, black and white, briar, rose, lemon-trees, […]

   1. (botany) A sharp, hard extension of the cortex and epidermis of some plants (such as roses), as distinguished from a thorn.
2. (figuratively) A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
3. (Ulster, in the plural) Gooseflesh.
4. A kind of willow basket.
   • c. 1623–1624 – 1630s, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Lovers Progres”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii, page 80:

     If I had but a pottle of Sacke, like a sharp prickle, / To knock my nose against when I am nodding

   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, “Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor:

     The prickle is a brown willow basket, in which walnuts are imported into this country from the Continent; they are about thirty inches deep, and in bulk rather larger than a gallon measure; they are used only by the vendors of walnuts.

5. (UK, obsolete) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.
6. (collective) A group of hedgehogs or porcupines.
   • 2026 April 18, Donna Ferguson, “A prickle of hedgehogs and an armada of newts: wildlife settles in at London’s new Queen Elizabeth garden”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 28 July 2026:

     That honour belongs to a hairy-footed flower bee, a breeding pair of geese, some dragonfly nymphs, a flock of grey wagtails, a prickle of hedgehogs, an armada of newts, a flutter of spring butterflies and a “very cheeky” fox.

   • 2025 November 16, Anna-Louise Jackson, “Montana Woman Plucks Her Own Quills From Porcupines To Make Unique Jewelry”, in Cowboy State Daily‎, archived from the original on 28 July 2026:

     It may strike some people as odd, a father-daughter gift of a porcupine (and a dead one, at that), but a prickle of porcupines had become quite the pests around his farm, damaging things and gnawing the bark off of many of the trees.

   • 2019 October 17, Rebecca Reid, “Our prickle of porcupines has grown”, in Auckland Zoo‎, archived from the original on 28 July 2026:

     Our prickle of porcupines has grown

使用する際の注意点

• In botanical terminology, the thorns or spines of many plants are called prickles.

派生語

動詞

prickle (third-person singular simple present prickles, present participle prickling, simple past and past participle prickled)

1. (intransitive) To feel a prickle.
2. (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel a prickle; to prick.
   • 2014, J. S. Eades, Promises and Other Broken Things, page 400:

     Guilt prickled me. It was about to get much worse.

派生語

アナグラム

• Pickler, Pickrel, pickler