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prick
noun- the penis UK, 1592
From the basic sense, “anything that pricks or pierces”; in conventional English until around 1700. William Shakespeare (1564–1616) played word games with it, Robert Burns (1759–96) used it with vulgar good humour and the Victorians finally hid it away. - She used candles, Roman candles, and door knobs. Not a prick in the land big enough for her, not one. Men went inside her and curled up. — Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, p. 7, 1961
- In his anxiety the man has even forgotten to pretend he’s standing there for any purpose other than to see Johnny’s prick[.] — John Rechy, Numbers, p. 41, 1967
- [H]is prick is small and rather dismal-looking. — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 109, 1968
- When the prick stands up, the brain gets buried — Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, 1969
- “Can you put your prick further in my ass, and further in my cunt.” — Final Report of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, p. 438, 1986
- a despicable man; a fool; used as a general term of offence or contempt, often as an abusive form of address, always of a male or an inanimate object US, 1929
Since the 1940s, when qualified by the adjective “silly”, the sense need not be derogatory or contemptuous, as “you silly prick”, “the silly prick” etc. An unembellished prick, however, is considered very offensive. - Old men with white hair and black-ribbon glasses “look right"–no cop, no prick dares question their freedom. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, p. 213, 16 July 1949
- You ever stop to figure that, you dumb prick? — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, p. 295, 1954
- [F]or every sentient being or living creature these actual pricks kill they will be reborn a thousand times to suffer the horrors of samsara and damn good for ‘em too. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 38, 1958
- We can be just three sailors together, or we can be a prisoner and two pricks. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 67, 1970
- Miles was a soul man, a sound, a black Bogey. He was also an insufferable prick. — Albert Goldman, Freak Show, p. 301, 1971
- “ What a prick,” Bob says. “What a flaming prick.” — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 49, 1974
- arseholes, bastards, fucking cunts and pricks — Ian Dury, Plaistow Patricia, 1977
- We cut down that prick of a tree, too. — Chris Ryan, Stand By, Stand By, p. 224, 1996
- What I wouldn’t give to know what heavy feels like, you insensitive prick. — Something About Mary, 1998
- You just smile about it cos you’d look like a prick not to. — Dave Courtney, Raving Lunacy, p. 19, 2000
- a marijuana cigarette UK, 1984 Presumably based on phallic imagery.
- a despicable person US, 1929
- “I’ve seen some awful pricks. And the funny thing is a lot of them were mustangs. Old enlisted men.” — Thomas Heggen, Mister Roberts, p. 177, 1946
- Old men with white hair and black-ribbon glasses “look right”–no cop, no prick dares question their freedom. — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Allen Ginsberg, p. 213, 16 July 1949
- You ever stop to figure that, you dumb prick? — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, p. 295, 1954
- [F]or every sentient being or living creature these actual pricks kill they will be reborn a thousand times to suffer the horrors of samsara and damn good for ‘em too. — Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums, p. 38, 1958
- We can be just three sailors together, or we can be a prisoner and two pricks. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 67, 1970
- Miles was a soul man, a sound, a black Bogey. He was also an insufferable prick. — Albert Goldman, Freak Show, p. 301, 1971
- What I wouldn’t give to know what heavy feels like, you insensitive prick. — Something About Mary, 1998
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