hurt vs pricking

hurt

noun
  • A husk. 

  • A roundel azure (blue circular spot). 

  • A band on a trip hammer's helve, bearing the trunnions. 

  • An emotional or psychological humiliation or bad experience. 

adj
  • Wounded, physically injured. 

  • Pained. 

verb
  • To cause (a person or animal) physical pain and/or injury. 

  • To be painful. 

  • To cause (somebody) emotional pain. 

  • To damage, harm, impair, undermine, impede. 

pricking

noun
  • A nicking. 

  • The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. 

  • The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness. 

  • A sensation that pricks. 

  • The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick. 

  • The act of tracing a hare by its footmarks. 

How often have the words hurt and pricking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )