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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)
4.
to prick or drive with, or as if with, a goad; prod; incite.
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Goad
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Origin:
before 900; Middle English gode, Old English gād; compare Langobardic gaida spearhead
before 900; Middle English gode, Old English gād; compare Langobardic gaida spearhead
Related forms
goad·like, adjective
un·goad·ed, adjective
Synonyms
4. spur, push, impel.
4. spur, push, impel.
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Example Sentences
- This is what she wants, what she's tried to goad me to all evening.
- It does not matter if they were trying to goad you or not.
- Religious leaders are the goad or conscience of a society.
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Word Origin & History
goad
O.E. gad "spearhead," from P.Gmc. *gaido (cf. Lombardic gaida "spear"), from PIE *ghai- (cf. Skt. hetih "missile, projectile," O.Ir. gae "spear"). Figurative use is since 16c., probably from the Bible. The verb is from 1579.
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Goad definition
(Heb. malmad, only in Judg. 3: 31), an instrument used by ploughmen for guiding their oxen. Shamgar slew six hundred Philistines with an ox-goad. "The goad is a formidable weapon. It is sometimes ten feet long, and has a sharp point. We could now see that the feat of Shamgar was not so very wonderful as some have been accustomed to think." In 1 Sam. 13:21, a different Hebrew word is used, _dorban_, meaning something pointed. The expression (Acts 9:5, omitted in the R.V.), "It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks", i.e., against the goad, was proverbial for unavailing resistance to superior power.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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