Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving. · A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument. · A poke. · A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
To poke, to push, to touch. · To encourage, to prompt. · To prick with a goad.
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.
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