Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to enter a woman.

c.1386		Chaucer Reeve’s Tale ( 1979) line 374: This John the clerk up leep, And on this goode wyf he leith on soore. [...] He priketh harde and depe as he were mad.
c.1540		J. Heywood Four P.P. in Farmer Dramatic Writings (1905) 37: But prick them and pin them as nice as ye will, And yet will they look for pinning still.
1604		Dekker Honest Whore Pt 1 I i: You prickt her out nothing but bawdy lessons.
1612		Pasquil’s Nightcap (1877) 43: That precious Kate with valour I may tumble. [...] Oh peirce her (pretie Cupid) with thy sting, That I may pricke her with another thinge.
1652		Mercurius Democritus 10 1–9 June 73: On the green grass by two’s they’l fight and thrust, as well as prick.
1568		T. Buckley ‘Libel of Oxford’ in May & Bryson Verse Libel 315: A Laundresse now whome boyes did use, / That thought to prick her husbande’s patch.
c.1670		Purgatorium Hibernicum 27: Until her rider Curbd the bride- / Delt and clapt Spurrs into her side / And prickt her up .
1673		J. Wade Vinegar and Mustard B: He was thrust up his Aul into her blind creek, (with a Pox to her) and when you was prickt, her [i.e. she] was give such a kick upward, that her was threw the fellow out of the saddle all along in the dirt.
c.1699		Gyldenstolpe (2) Prologue: Every little Thing pricks vp so soon That at Fourteen it Hectors up and down With ... the worst Whores in Town’.
c.1707		‘My Pretty Maid’ in Farmer Merry Songs and Ballads (1897) I 204: It is a pretty pricking thing / A pleasing and a standing thing [...] ’Twill serve to Rove, to Prick, to Butt.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy IV 72: It is a Shaft of Cupid’s cut, / ’Twill serve to rove, to Prick, to butt.
1786		C. Morris ‘Jenny Sutton’ Collection of Songs (1788) 54: Her Body was a lott’ry fair, / To prick where’er it pleas’d you: / In Arse, or Cunt, or Mouth, or Ear, / She ev’ry way would ease you.
a.1800		‘Miss Bella’s Pranks’ Coaxing Landlady’s Garland 8: Lawyers and Gentlemen do daily flatter me, And all to get Leave to prick in my Lottery.
1832		Satirist (London) 1 Jan. 3/1: [T]hese said ‘prickings’ are, ‘like angels’ visits—few and far between’.
1835		‘Toast’ Secret Songster 48: That pull up their clothes, / As high as their nose, / Prick a monkey – and here goes.
1842		‘I Cannot Take It In’ Nancy Dawson’s Cabinet of Songs 38: I pricked her in return, / And she fairly took me in.
2023		R. Milward Man-Eating Typewriter 27: [T]he Surrealists who pricked her during various meshigena soirées.