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prod.

To poke, to push, to touch.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/pɹɒd/UK/pɹɔd/UK/pɹɑd/US

  1. To poke, to push, to touch.

    intransitive · transitive

  2. To encourage, to prompt.

    informal · transitive

  3. To prick with a goad.

    transitive
Where this word comes from

Alteration of earlier brod (perhaps through influence of poke; compare prog), from Middle English brodden (“to goad, incite, urge; to sprout”), from brod (“goad, nail; shoot, sprout”), from Old Norse broddr (“shaft, spike, thorn”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz. Cognate with Icelandic broddur, Danish brod. Doublet of brad. Or, from or influenced by sound symbolism.

noun/pɹɒd/UK/pɹɔd/UK/pɹɑd/US

  1. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.

  2. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.

  3. A poke.

    "It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.

  4. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.

Where this word comes from

Alteration of earlier brod (perhaps through influence of poke; compare prog), from Middle English brodden (“to goad, incite, urge; to sprout”), from brod (“goad, nail; shoot, sprout”), from Old Norse broddr (“shaft, spike, thorn”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz. Cognate with Icelandic broddur, Danish brod. Doublet of brad. Or, from or influenced by sound symbolism.

noun

  1. Clipping of production (“the live environment”).

    abbreviation · alt-of · clipping · slang · uncountable
    We've hit ten million users in prod today.

  2. A production; a created work.

    countable · slang
    Check our BBS for the latest prods.
Where this word comes from

Shortened from production.

noun

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Prod (“protestant”).

    Ireland · UK · alt-of · derogatory · slang · sometimes
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