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kicking against the pricks

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.00 in modern English

Syllables
kick-ing a-gain-st the pricks
IPA
46
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of kick against the pricks

Questions

What does kicking against the pricks mean?
present participle and gerund of kick against the pricks

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