"prickette" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: prickettes [plural]
Etymology: prick + -ette Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|prick|ette|id2=female}} prick + -ette Head templates: {{en-noun}} prickette (plural prickettes)
  1. (slang, derogatory) A woman or girl who is unpleasant, rude or annoying. Tags: derogatory, slang
    Sense id: en-prickette-en-noun-4eJdBf3S Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ette (female)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1994, Dana Stabenow, A Cold-Blooded Business, page 50",
          "text": "Good-bye, all you little pricks and prickettes, good-bye. Click your heels, close your eyes, and say three times, 'There's no place like Washington, D. C.'",
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        {
          "ref": "2007, Hank Miller, The Admiral's Son, page 128",
          "text": "These are in all probability, the same little pricks and prickettes who eventually grew up to dominate the business and social scenes in the Philippines, and who perpetuated the rift between the haves and the have nots thus condemning the Islands to the never-ending insurgencies and revolutions that exist today, post Marcos.",
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        {
          "ref": "2008 -, Margaret Sartor -, Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s",
          "text": "The only Margaret I know is the one in Dennis the Menace and she's a prickette.",
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        {
          "ref": "2009, John Philpin, Dreams in the Key of Blue, page 129",
          "text": "A honcho at MI, guy named Weatherly, complained to politicians in Augusta and Washington. We can't check papers anymore. Have to stay a hundred feet away from the pricks and prickettes.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Susan Shumsky, Maharishi & Me: Seeking Enlightenment with the Beatles' Guru",
          "text": "“Townies” (local residents) ridiculed “ru's” (a demeaning epithet for TM meditators) as obnoxious pricks and prickettes from California who invaded Fairfield like stuck-up know-it-alls.",
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