prod

(Engels)

Verb

1. (transitive) To poke, to push, to touch.
2. (informal, transitive) To encourage, to prompt.
3. (transitive) To prick with a goad.

Noun

1. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
2. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
3. A poke.
4. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.

Noun

1. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, slang, uncountable) Clipping of production (“the live environment”).
2. (countable, slang) A production; a created work.

Noun

Alternative letter-case form of Prod (“protestant”).

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/pɹɒd/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: brodden

Verwante met Yslands: broddur

Verwante met Deens: brod

In summary

Alteration of earlier brod (perhaps through influence of poke; compare prog), from Middle English brodden (“to goad, incite, urge; to sprout”), from brod (“goad, nail; shoot, sprout”), from Old Norse broddr (“shaft, spike, thorn”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz. Cognate with Icelandic broddur, Danish brod. Doublet of brad. Or, from or influenced by sound symbolism.

Sinonieme

poke

spur

urge

prompt

jab

stimulate

incite

impel

encourage

instigate

stab

goad

nudge

abet

spur on

stir

stir up

trigger

prick

provocate

sting

push

thrust

prodding

stimulus

instigation

drive

impetus

urge on

spurring

shove

incitement

egg on

impulse

goading

pound

💷

stimulation

strike

spine

abetment

thorn

induce

provoke

punch

👊

prong

hit

dig

poke at

momentum

lunge