Prick farrier is a piece of British military slang for an army doctor — a medical officer. 'Prick' is slang for a needle or syringe (as well as the penis); a farrier is someone who shoes horses. The joke maps the army doctor's practice of giving injections onto the farrier's practice of working with pointed metal implements on animals — implying the patients are treated more like livestock than humans. The term is irreverent and typically affectionate in a soldiers' dark-humour way.
He reported sick and was sent to the prick farrier, who told him it was nothing a week of rest wouldn't fix.
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(UK, military, slang) An army doctor.
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