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goad
[ gohd ]
noun
- a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
- anything that pricks or wounds like such a stick.
- something that encourages, urges, or drives; a stimulus.
goad
/ ɡəʊd /
noun
- a sharp pointed stick for urging on cattle, etc
- anything that acts as a spur or incitement
verb
- tr to drive with or as if with a goad; spur; incite
Derived Forms
- ˈgoadˌlike, adjective
Other Words From
- goad·like adjective
- un·goad·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of goad1
Word History and Origins
Origin of goad1
Example Sentences
Thus began Johns’s career-long fascination with signs and symbols — not as a subject for representation, but as a goad to pure painting.
He had no choice but to take up the goad and to do what he did.
Experts and politicians goad the White House on with demands for tough actions against Russia that they surely know will fail.
Maybe the public display of pro-Gaddafi sentiments acts as a goad for the killings.
Paul, by talking up his isolationism, would goad Romney into sounding like Dick Cheney.
Social and cultural insecurity has also served as a goad to Mormon productivity and achievement.
He knew how to improvise, how to lead a fellow actor into a state of mind, how to goad them into their best performances.
Egypt is like a fair and beautiful heifer: there shall come from the north one that shall goad her.
He called to her, he rallied her; he signalled to Thyrsis to help him—to inspire her, to goad her to new endurance.
The mahout reached down with his silver tipped goad and touched the elephant on the knee.
The mahout, fully awake to the danger, beat the old rascal mightily with his goad.
In his hand he carried a long-handled ox-whip, with a short goad in the butt of it.
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