The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prickling
Prickling \Prick"ling\, a.
Prickly. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
prickling
n. A sensation that prickles. vb. (present participle of prickle English)
WordNet
prickling
adj. causing or experiencing a painful shivering feeling as from many tiny pricks; "a prickling blush of embarrassment"; "the tingling feeling in a foot that has gone to sleep"; "a stinging nettle"; "the stinging windblown sleet" [syn: stinging, tingling]
n. a prickling somatic sensation as from many tiny pricks [syn: tingle, tingling]
Usage examples of "prickling".
His sensorium flooded with scattershot pricklings, tripped open by some freeing signal.
Probably sleeps like a stone, he thought, and felt the first pricklings of annoyance.