Pricket's sister

• A two-year old female fallow deer. A pricket is a two-year old buck, with horns that are straight and unbranched. A herd of fallow deer is kept in Dublin's Phoenix Park. Cf. other species of hoofed ruminants: Dik Dik, Eland, Elk).

• Prick, like dick, is coarse slang for "penis."

• Prick also refers to the small dots used in writing, i.e. jots, tittles, diacritics, the vowels in Hebrew, etc.