prod

Meaning

Verb

1. To poke, to push, to touch.
2. (informal) To encourage, to prompt.
3. 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. (slang) Short for production (“the live environment”).
2. (slang) A production; a created work.

Noun

Alternative letter-case form of Prod.

Synonyms

poke

spur

urge

prompt

incite

stimulate

jab

impel

instigate

stab

encourage

goad

abet

nudge

spur on

trigger

stir up

stir

provocate

prick

sting

push

thrust

prodding

drive

impetus

urge on

stimulus

instigation

pound

💷

egg on

spurring

incitement

goading

impulse

shove

knock

nettle

induce

abetment

dig

spine

stimulation

strike

poke at

thorn

ram

🐏

lunge

momentum

urging

prong

yen

💴

motivate

provoke

punch

👊

hit

product

production

propel

puncture

quill

ram down

reinforcer

root for

round up

scanner

score

send

shaft

shake

shot

shoulder

slam

spike

stick

sticker

tab

tamp

tease

tickle

tine

tip

transfix

turn on

turn-on

twinge

upset

vellicate

backslap

sensibilia

acantha

aculeus

test prod

ram in

solvent abuse

aggravation

arousal

attack

👊

awl

barb

batter

bite

bodkin

broach

cause

center

centre

cheer

chuck

core

cuff

dispose

downtown

elbow

embolden

embroider

encouragement

excitation

excite

filigree

fix

flatter

force

get

herd

hustle

incitation

irritant

irritate

job

jog

make

move

nag

nip

pass

peak

peck

pick

⛏️

pick at

pierce

pike

pinch

pique

piton

pluck

point

pop

press forward

prickle

Pronounced as (IPA)

/pɹɒd/

Etymology

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.