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Definition: Prodding |
ProddingNoun1. A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prodding" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: ProddingSynonyms: goad (n), goading (n), prod (n), spur (n), spurring (n), urging (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Prodding |
| English words defined with "prodding": goad, goading ♦ prod ♦ spur, spurring ♦ urging. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "prodding": EXTRACTOR-MACHINE OPERATOR. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | However, the July 1999 bankruptcy of the Daewoo Corporation showed the risk of delaying needed reforms while prodding the Korean government to pursue further economic reform and restructuring. (references) | |
Economic History | Equatorial Guinea | With the prodding of the United Nations, the United States, Spain, and other donor countries, the government undertook an electoral census in 1995. Freely contested municipal elections, the country's first, were held in September. (references) |
Bangladesh | Through the Gas Sector Development Strategy and Gas Sector Development Program, the World Bank and ADB are prodding the government toward private sector participation in gas transmission and development activities. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Prodding" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 89.02% of the time. "Prodding" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 89.02% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Noun (singular) | 10.98% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "prodding": beak-prodding, chest-prodding, conscience-prodding. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
prodding | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prodding"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Chinese | 刺 (lunge, Lunged, Lunging, Prick, Pricked, Pricking, Pricking-up, Prod, Prodded, Puncture, Punctured, Puncturing, stab, thorn). (various references) | ||||
German | stupsend. (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | lyukasztóvas (dolly, driver, pricker, prodding tool). (various references) | ||||
Korean | 찌름 (Pinking, Poking, Prick, Pricking, Spearing, stabbing, stinging). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | oddingpray | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Prodding" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perioding, Perrodin, podding, prededing, preding, proddings, proddy, proding, Prydein, pyrddin, rodding, trodding. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "prodding" (pronounced prÄ"ding) |
| 5 | -r Ä" d i ng | rodding. |
| 4 | -Ä" d i ng | codding, Godding, nodding, plodding. |
| 3 | -d i ng | abiding, abounding, acceding, according, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, applauding, apprehending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, coding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, decoding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, encoding, ending, eroding, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, exploding, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, foreboding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, goading, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, imploding, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, loading, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unloading, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-d-g-i-n-o-p-r" | |
-1 letter: podding, rodding. | |
-2 letters: doping, pongid, poring, roping. | |
-3 letters: dingo, doing, droid, gipon, giron, grind, groin, oping, orpin, pingo, pirog, poind, prion, prong. | |
-4 letters: dido, ding, dong, dorp, drip, drop, gird, girn, giro, gorp, grid, grin, grip, inro, iron, nodi, noir, nori, ping, pion, pirn, pond, pong, porn, prig, prod, prog, rind, ring. | |
-5 letters: did, dig. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-d-g-i-n-o-p-r" | |
+5 letters: propagandized. | |
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