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prickery

noun

Etymology

From prick + -ery.

  1. derived from *breyǵ-✻ — “to scrape, scratch, rub, prickle, chap”
  2. inherited from *prikô✻
  3. inherited from *prikō✻
  4. inherited from prica
  5. inherited from prik
  6. suffixed as prickery — “prick + ery”

Definitions

  1. The actions or attitudes of a prick

    The actions or attitudes of a prick; prickish behaviour.

    • The women's game isn't blighted with nearly as much preening, posing or all-round prickery.
    • “God's blood, Thomas, self-righteous prickery is not the preserve of the English!”
    • It is hard to zone in on a particular Dragon or ex-Dragon, given the strong claims to prickery of both Peter Jones and Duncan Bannatyne.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA