Noun: prod
Sample Sentences
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"It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.
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The 125-pound prod (bow) drives bolt at 250 feet per second. [1983, Popular Mechanics:]
Nouns inflected like prod
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Old Norse Nouns '
broddr', Icelandic Nouns '
broddur', Danish Nouns '
brod'.