Goad

Definition: Goad

Goad

Noun

1. A pointed instrument used to prod into motion.

2. A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves".

Verb

1. Give heart or courage to.

2. Urge with or as if with a goad.

3. Prod or urge as if with a log stick.

4. Goad or provoke,as by constant criticism; "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "goad" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Bible

Synonyms: Goad

Motive

Incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus, rowel, provocative, whet, dram.

Enforce, force; impel; (push); propel; whip, lash, goad, spur, prick, urge; egg on, hound, hurry on; drag; exhort; advise; call upon; press; (request); advocate.

Crosswords: Goad

The Goad of Jealousy (1916)

Books

• Eden, golden age or goad to action? (reference)

• Goad and Nail (Studies in Medieval Cistercian History, No 10) (reference)

• Lead Me on: Frank Goad Clement and Tennessee Politics (reference)

• The Goad of Love (reference)

  (more book examples)

The fields goaded him, and the company ditches with good water flowing were a goad to him.

Expressions using "goad": goad on ♦ goad smb. into smth. ♦ goad smb. on ♦ ox goad. Additional references.

Beginning with "goad": goad-class.

Ending with "goad": ox-goad.

Albanian

shtyj (actuate, adjourn, bring, carry over, dare, delay, detrude, dig, dispose, drive, dub, flip, hang up, hold over, hustle, impel, incite, induce, instigate, jab, jog, jolt, jostle, jumble, lead on, leave over, lengthen, motivate, motive, move, postpone, pressurize, propel, push, recess, shove, thrust, trundle, urge, waive, walk), nxit (abet, actuate, arouse, begrime, bring, dare, dispose, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, heat, impel, incendiarism, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), nxis (abet, actuate, animate, arouse, begrime, bring, challenge, dare, dispose, drive, egg on, encourage, enkindle, exhort, fan, fillip, foment, galvanize, heat, impel, incite, induce, inflame, instigate, motivate, move, prod, prompt, provoke, push, quicken, stimulate, stir up, urge, whet, whip, whip up, work up), hosten (gad). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مهماز (prod, spur), ‏منخس (spur), ‏همز (prod, spur), ‏نخس بشوكة, ‏حث (actuate, admonish, debriefing, dub, encourage, encouragement, gun, hurry, impel, incitation, incite, induce, induce to speak, inducement, interest, motivate, motivation, motive, persuade, precipitate, press, prod, prompt, prompting, propel, provocation, provoke, push on, recommend, rouse, solicit, solicitation, spur, stimulate, stimulation, stir, tempt), ‏شوكة (backbone, barb, fang, pricket, prickle, spine, spur, thorn). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стимулирам (animate, brace, excite, exhilarate, innervate, irritate, quicken, stimulate, urge), стимул (brace, impetus, impulse, inducement, oestrum, oestrus, propulsion, push, relish, savor, savour, spur, stimulant, stimulus), остен (gad, prick, prod), мушкам с остен, подтиквам (actuate, fillip, help forward, hypo, impel, incite, inspire, invigorate, invite, move, prod, prompt, provoke, resolve, spur, stir up, urge on), подтик (drive, fillip, hypo, impulse, incentive, inducement, prompting, propulsion, push, relish, sanction, spur, stimulus, urge, whet). (various references)

Chinese 

棍棒. (various references)

Czech

popud (impulse, incentive, incitement, initiative, stimulus), popohánìt (hurry, spur on), pobídka (encouragement, incentive, inducement, spur). (various references)

Danish

elektrisk pigkaep (electric cattle goad, electric prod for cattle), elektrisk hegn (electric cattle goad, electric prod for cattle). (various references)

Dutch

elektrische prikstok (electric cattle goad, electric prod for cattle). (various references)

Farsi 

مهمیز (Spur), تحریک کردن (Actuate, Agitate, Annoy, Arouse, Bestir, Edge, Egg, Excite, Fuel, Ginger, Hypo, Incense, Incite, Instigate, Motivate, Move, Pique, Prick, Prime, Provoke, Stimulate), سیخک (Gad, Gaff, Steeve), سیخ (Broach, Erect, Gad, Grid, Ramrod, Spur, Stiff, Wooden), سک زدن 2 (Prod, Yerk), سک , خار (Barb, Bur, Burr, Jag, Prick, Teazle, Thorn), انگیزه (Cause, Impetus, Incentive, Inducement, Motive, Mover, Propellant, Stimulant, Stimulus), ازردن (Afflict, Aggrieve, Ail, Annoy, Distaste, Grate, Gripe, Grit, Harrow, Harry, Hurt, Irk, Irritate, Lacerate, Mortify, Peeve, Prick, Rile, Tar). (various references)

French

piquer, piqûre, inciter, aiguillonner, aiguillon. (various references)

German

stachelstock, stachel (prick, sting, thorn, barb, prickle, spine), aufstachende bemerkung, aufreizen (incite, provoke), antreiben (drive, actuate, impel, urge), anstacheln (arouse, drive on, egg on, incite, incite to, spur on), ansporn (spur). (various references)

Greek 

κεντώ (embroider, prick), κεντρίζω (sting), καθοδηγώ (guide), βουκέντρο (gad), παροτρύνω (urge). (various references)

Hebrew 

מרדע (spur), להמריץ (drive, encourage, hearten, impel, instigate, spirit, spur, stimulate, stir up, tone up, urge), לדרבן (egg on, prod, spur, stimulate, sting, stir up, urge), דרבן (prick, spur, sting), דרבון (goading, spurring, sting, urging). (various references)

Hungarian

ösztöke (prod). (various references)

Indonesian

tongkat (cane, paddle, staff, stick, truncheon, wand), merangsang. (various references)

Italian

stimolo (stimulus), stimolare (stimulate, rouse), spronare (abet, excite, incite, provoke, rouse, stimulate), pungolo (prickle, prod, spur, stimulus), incitare (abet, incite, stimulate, excite, provoke, rouse, stir). (various references)

Manx

sleeaney (lance, spear), sleeanag, sleean (lance, spear), lorg immanagh, greinnaghey (abet, activate, activation, coach, coaching, encourage, encouragement, incite, induce, inducement, prompt, stimulate), broddey (jab, nudge with nose, poke, prick, prickle, probe, rouse, stir up), brod immanagh, brod (jab, nudge, prick, spur, stimulus). (various references)

Norwegian

piggstav, egge (incite, instigate). (various references)

Pig Latin

oadgay.(various references)

Portuguese

picar (chop, pick, sting), incitar (excite, impel, incite, instigate, stimulate, urge), incentivo (combustible, encouragement, fillip, fuel, incentive, incitement, persuasive, spur, stimulus), aguilhoar (prod, sting), aguilhoada (prod). (various references)

Romanian

strãmurare, stimula (cheer, excite, incite, rouse, stimulate), porni (begin, start), imbold (fillip, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive), ac (needle, pinnacle, spindle, spur, sting, style, switch), întãrita, înghimpa (prick), îndemna (advise, charge, court, egg, exhort, hunch, impel, incite, induce, needle, prick, prod, prompt, punch, push, rouse, set smb. doing smth., spank, spur, stimulate, urge), îndemâna (advice), împinge (push, thrust), îmboldi (actuate, hound on, hurry, impel, press, prompt, spur, stimulate, urge into), ţeapã (bristle, pale, quill, sliver, spine, splinter, thorn). (various references)

Russian 

подгонять (customize, dovetail, hurry, match, pepped, pinch, urge, wing). (various references)

Scottish

brod (a goad, a lid, the choice of anything). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

podsticaj (abetment, fillip, impetus, impulse, impulsion, incentive, prod, spur, stimulus, whet), podstaći (abet, enforce, exhort, fire, foment, galvanize, incite to, induce, instigate, pique, spark, stir, stoke, whet), podbadati (egg on, needle), štap (billy, cane, crook, prod, rod, stick, truncheon, verge). (various references)

Spanish

provocar con insulto, provocar (provoke), picar (sting, itch, mince, pick, stab), estímulo (stimulus, encouragement, stimulation), aguijonear (punch, urge), aguijar (prick), aguijada, aguijón (sting). (various references)

Swedish

sporra (incite, spur), egga (excite, incite, prod, quicken, stimulate). (various references)

Thai

สิ่งยั่วยุ, กระตุ้น (arouse, awake, awaken, egg on, energize, fuel, goad into, goad on, lash, make, move, push, quicken, spur). (various references)

Turkish

teşvik etmek (abet, cheer, cheer on, countenance, draw, egg, egg on, embolden, encourage, fillip, Foster, ginger, ginger up, give a fillip to, give countenance to, goad on, incite, induce, inspirit, instigate, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, lend wings to, prod, prompt, put a premium on, put smb. on his mettle, revitalize, set on, sharpen, spark, spoonfeed, spur, spur smb. on, stimulate, stir up, tickle up, urge), rahatsız etmek (ail, annoy, badger, bait, bother, chafe, chivvy, chivy, derange, devil, discomfort, discommode, distract, disturb, get in smb.'s hair, goad on, harass, hassle, hatchel, hump, incommode, inconvenience, irritate, make a draft on, pester, put smb. to inconvenience, put upon, trouble, twist smb.'s tail, worry), rahatsız eden şey (disturber), kışkırtmak (agitate, antagonize, defy, egg, egg on, excite, fan the flame, ferment, foment, ginger, ginger up, goad on, hound, hound on, incite, inflame, instigate, jockey into, lash, prod, provoke, rouse, set on, solicit, sting, stir up, tempt, warm up, whip up), dürtmek (dig, edge on, ginger, ginger up, hustle, incite, jab, jog, jolt, nudge, poke, prod, shove, spur, spur smb. on, thrust), üvendire (prod), öküz dürtme değneği. (various references)

Ukrainian

стрекало (pricker, prod), стимулювати (apprompt, pep up, propel, stimulate), стимул (incentive, incitement, inducement, oestrus, spur, stimulus, whet), роздратовувати (acerbate, anger, discontent, dislike, embitter, exacerbate, fash, fret, frump, huff, irk, needle, nettle, nip, peeve, rile, terrify, wear on), збудник (exciter, provocative, wakener), підганяти (bustle, fit on, flog, hurry, prod, push, touch up, whip). (various references)

Vietnamese 

điều thúc giục điều dằn vặt, điều rầy khổ. (various references)

Welsh

symbylu (spur, stimulate), swmbwl, cethrenu (drive). (various references)

kentron. (various references)

conpuncti, conpunctum, conpungar, conpungimini, conpunxerunt, repungo, stimulo. (various references)

gad. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "goad": goaded, goading, goadlike, goads. (additional references)

Words ending with "goad": overgoad. (additional references)

Words containing "goad": overgoaded, overgoading, overgoads. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Goad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fohad, gada, gadd, gado, Gadp, gao, gaod, gaom, gaou, ghoud, gia, Giac, giade, gied, gioa, Gioas, Gjoka, gload, gnad, goac, goada, goade, goady, goae, goak, goam, goan, goard, goas, goda, godan, Godd, Goddb, goed, goeh, goex, gofa, Goias, goid, goiz, Gojas, gomad, Gomard, Gond, goodb, Gopak, Gosau, gouw, Goward, gowda, goza, Gozd, Gqoza, groad, groid, gtad, guad, guadi, guaj, guau, guda, gyoza, joda, oad, oadg, Oadp, oga, ogaed, Ogard, ogdoad, ogofau, poad, Wojado. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: dago.

-1 letter: ado, ago, dag, dog, gad, goa, god.

-2 letters: ad, ag, do, go, od.

+1 letter: dagos, dogma, donga, goads, gonad, pagod.

+2 letters: adagio, algoid, bandog, bodega, dagoba, dagoes, dialog, dogear, dogmas, dognap, dongas, dosage, dotage, dragon, gadoid, ganoid, gaoled, goaded, goaled, goddam, gonads, hagdon, lapdog, ogdoad, pagoda, pagods, seadog, togaed.

+3 letters: aboding, adagios, adoring, agatoid, aground, bandogs, bodegas, bondage, cantdog, congaed, cordage, dadoing, daglock, dagobas, dagwood, dayglow, daylong, decagon, decalog, demagog, dialogs, doating, dockage, dogbane, dogcart, dogears, dogface, dogmata, dognaps, dogvane, dongola, dosages, dotages, dowager, dragons, dragoon, fagoted, foraged, gadoids, gadroon, galoped, gambado, ganoids, garoted, geoidal, gloated, goading, goateed, goddamn, goddams, godhead, goldarn, goliard, gonadal, gonadic, gondola, gonidia, goodman, gormand, gowaned, groaned, hagdons, hagrode, hangdog, hidalgo, homaged, lapdogs, loading, mangold, megapod, ogdoads, organdy, outdrag, pagodas, pedagog, podagra, sandhog, seadogs, tangoed, togated, valgoid, voyaged, wagoned, wordage.