Usually means: Made to feel slightly uncomfortable.
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  1. prickled: Merriam-Webster
  2. prickled: Collins English Dictionary
  3. prickled: Vocabulary.com
  4. prickled: Wordnik
  5. prickled: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. prickled: Wiktionary
  7. prickled: Dictionary.com
  8. prickled: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. prickled: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. prickled: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prickled: Medical dictionary

(Note: See prickle as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (prickle)

noun:  A small, sharp pointed object, such as a thorn.
noun:  (botany) On various plants, such as roses and Vachellia, sharp, hard extensions of the cortex and epidermis, informally called "thorns" in colloquial speech.
noun:  A tingling sensation of mild discomfort.
noun:  A kind of willow basket.
noun:  (UK, obsolete) A sieve of hazelnuts, weighing about fifty pounds.
noun:  (collective) A group of hedgehogs or porcupines.
verb:  (intransitive) To feel a prickle.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel a prickle; to prick.
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