prod

CEFRB2

/pɹɒd/

verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To push someone or something with a finger or pointed object.

  2. 02

    verb

    To encourage someone to act or answer.

Examples

  • Don't prod your food with your fork like that.

  • No matter how much I prod her, she refuses to start working on the assignment.

At a glance

Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To encourage, to prompt.

  2. To prick with a goad.

  3. To poke, to push, to touch.

More examples

In context

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

  • Check our BBS for the latest prods.

  • We've hit ten million users in prod today.

Quick test

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Question 1 · Quick check

The farmer used a stick to blank the lazy ox to get it moving.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

verb

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.