Green’s Dictionary of Slang

pricker n.¹

1. (UK Und.) a fork.

1846

Swell’s Night Guide 57: schikster: What’s the slums of the swag? gonniff: Oh, all sorts of slums; prickers and chives, suppers and spreaders, fawney and fogles.

2. (Aus.) a knife, a dagger.

1901

Sydney Sportsman (Surry Hills, NSW) 2 Jan. 2/4: There would be many similar tragedies to [Carmen] in tropical Sydney only that ‘the bloke’ here uses a brick instead of a pricker, as is the custom with the men of gallant Spain.

SE in slang uses

In phrases

get the pricker (v.) [SE pricker, that which pricks or pierces]

(Aus./ N.Z.) to get angry, to lose one’s temper.

1947		D. Davin For the Rest of Our Lives 296: Front line troops get the pricker if you sneer.
1955		D. Niland Shiralee 102: You’ve got the pricker properly, eh?
1973		P. Wilson N.Z. Jack 181: Don’t go and get the pricker with me over it.
1988		McGill Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 88/1: get the pricker with to be angry with.
2003		McGill Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988].