goad
/ɡəʊd/US/ɡoʊd/
goad noun: a long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
Noun
goad (plural goads)
- A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
- the daily goad urging him to the daily toil1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green...
- That which goads or incites; a stimulus.
- I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter IV, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 51
Verb
goad (third-person singular simple present goads, present participle goading, simple past and past participle goaded)
Proper noun capitalized: Goad
Goad (plural Goads)
- A surname.
goad meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
goad in Hindi
- to prod with a goad
- हाँकना hā̃knā
goad in Tamil
- to goad, incite, provoke
- ஓட்டு ōṭṭu
- goad, spur
- முள் muḷ
goad in Marathi
- goad
- पराणी parāṇī
goad in Urdu
- pointed stick used to prod animals
- آنکس ānkas
More languagesFewer languages
- goad in Telugu
- తోదనము tōdanamu, తోత్రము tōtramu
- goad in Malayalam
- തോട്ടി tōṭṭi, അങ്കുശം aṅkuśaṁ
- goad in Kannada
- ದೂಡು, ಹುರಿದುಂಬಿಸು
- goad in Gujarati
- પરાણી pũliṅg
- goad in Sanskrit
- अष्ट्रा aṣṭrā
- goad in Arabic
- مِنْخَس minḵas
- goad in Malay
- angkus
- goad in Indonesian
- gancu
- goad in Persian
- سک sok
- goad in Thai
- ประตัก bprà-dtàk, ปฏัก bpà-dtàk
Examples of goad in a sentence
- As Patrick continued to goad me, I felt my temper rising towards the limits of my self control.
- The sheriff was constantly goading me into shooting trespassers, which should surely count as incitement at the very least.
- Goaded by Priol’s anagram, Lambert doubted the Shaky Isles’ equally rickety claims on the lamington.
Synonyms of goad
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
Forms of goad
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | goads |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | goads |
| present participle | goading |
| past participle | goaded |
| past | goaded |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Goads |
Origin of goad
From Middle English gode, from Old English gād (“goad”), from Proto-Germanic *gaidō (compare Old Norse gedda (“pike (fish)”), Lombardic gaida (“spear”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- (compare Old Irish gath (“spear”), Sanskrit हिन्वति (hinvati), हिनोति (hinoti, “to urge on, throw”), हेति (heti, “missile, projectile”)). Doublet of gad and yard; see also xyston.
Words formed from goad
Phrases with goad
Words that rhyme with goad
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abode
- bode
- choad
- corrode
- encode
- toad
- antipode
- decode
- episode
- erode
- forebode
- hoed
- incommode
- overrode
- recode
- rode
- strode
- throwed
- unicode
- woad
- 'splode
- bestowed
- cestode
- chode
- crowed
- discommode
- glode
- Gold Code
- grode
- growed
- hode
- I'll be blowed
- lowed
- mowed
- nuclear code
- ode
- owed
- shode
- side road
- Spanish Road
- stroad
- subnode
- tode
- toed
- towed
- Union Road
- uudecode
- uuencode
Questions about goad
- What does goad mean?
- Goad means a long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
- What is goad in Hindi?
- Goad in Hindi is हाँकना (hā̃knā). See Goad meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is goad?
- Goad can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce goad?
- Goad is pronounced /ɡəʊd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of goad?
- The plural of goad is goads.
Words near goad in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: goad (page history and authors); Goad (page history and authors); ஓட்டு (Tamil) (page history and authors); पराणी (Marathi) (page history and authors); తోత్రము (Telugu) (page history and authors); goad (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); પરાણી (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-goad.wav.
Cite this entry: “goad.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/goad. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.