Definitions for goad

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goad goad

Spelling: [gohd]

IPA: /goʊd/

Goad is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in goad (adgo).

Definitions for goad

noun

1. a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end, for driving cattle, oxen, etc.; prod.
2. anything that pricks or wounds like such a stick.
3. something that encourages, urges, or drives; a stimulus.

verb (used with object)

1. to prick or drive with, or as if with, a goad; prod; incite.

Origin of goad

before 900; Middle English gode, Old English gād; compare Langobardic gaida spearhead

Examples for goad

He knew how to improvise, how to lead a fellow actor into a state of mind, how to goad them into their best performances.

Social and cultural insecurity has also served as a goad to Mormon productivity and achievement.

The boss thrust the goad into the hand of the bashful fellow.

Nothing could have been better calculated to goad him to extremity.

Do you think you can goad a man to desperation and leave him as cool as when you began?

But the spur, though it pricked, did not goad him into any action.

Maybe the public display of pro-Gaddafi sentiments acts as a goad for the killings.

The contempt he did not trouble to dissemble served but to goad them on.

Time rules in those glades, Time with his whip and goad, and there is no peace.

It was like a goad to the painted, shiny-eyed harridan on the sofa.