Goad Definition

gōd
goaded, goading, goads
noun
goads
A sharp-pointed stick used in driving oxen.
Webster's New World
An agent or means of prodding or urging; a stimulus.
American Heritage
Any driving impulse; spur.
Webster's New World
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verb
goaded, goading, goads
To drive with or as with a goad; prod into action; urge on.
Webster's New World

To encourage or stimulate.

Wiktionary

To incite or provoke.

Goading a boy to fight.
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Other Word Forms of Goad

Noun

Singular:
goad
Plural:
goads

Origin of Goad

  • Middle English gode, from Old English gād 'spear', from Proto-Germanic *gaidō (compare Old Norse gedda 'pike (fish)', Lombardic gaida 'spear'), from Proto-Indo-European *ghai- (compare Irish gath 'spear', Sanskrit [Devanagari?], हिनोति (hinvati, hinoti) 'to urge on, throw', हेति (heti) 'missile, projectile').

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English gode from Old English gād

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Goad Sentence Examples

  • For the first time since his boyhood he no longer felt the daily goad urging him to the daily toil.

  • An ox goad was used by a farmer, or a farm laborer.

  • Surprise them with football tickets, romantic nights on the town or just goad them into a cook-off challenge; they'll love it!

  • The goad is an elephant goad, used to produce movement from inertia.

  • The ox was driven forward to the altar, on which grain was spread, by members of the family of the Kentriadae (from ithi rpov, a goad), on whom this duty devolved hereditarily.

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