goad
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8.3
- noun
- /ɡoʊd/
:
vara para azuzar
- But on reflection: what better scene for Barthes to make than this curved, staggered dream space, where the density of merchandise, marketing, and anonymous masses of middle-class people must have presented such a sharp goad to his thinking about the status of the sign in a consumer society?
Examples
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Oedipus, not knowing the social status of the traveler, refuses to give way, and the traveler lashes out at him with his goad.
Academic text (2004) -
You shall be driven by a goad you sharpen yourself, and go blundering and stumbling, misjudging and misunderstanding to the end of your days.
Fiction book (1995) -
No, honey, that's an electric goad.
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It is hard for you to kick against the goads.
Blog text (21) -
In a few steps, they joined the others to watch the assembly of elephants, which the trainer got in line, while the elephant girl, armed with an iron goad, mounted the lead elephant.
Fiction book (1996) -
It is notable that the "dog-headed man" menaces the centaur with a weapon similar to the goad of the mahout.
Academic text (1994) -
Married men and women are pierced with flaming goads by devils who then force-feed them pitch and round out the punishment by drawing them apart, "bone from bone."
Academic text (2008) -
The Master controls his elephant with a goad, and we admire this miracle, wavering before our table like an ambulant land mass, wrinkling, monstrous, mud-scarred, grieved.
Fiction book (1995) -
One should experience the sacred feeling of the appearance with Bhagavan wearing Rudraksha malas, Pasha (noose), Khatvanga (club), Ankusha (goad), and Kamala.
Blog text (14) -
The farmer used a goad to urge the cattle to move towards the barn.
Synonyms
17
5.3
A small metal point on a rider's heel that urges a horse forward
12
4.4
A pointed stick used to push animals or people
A hooked stick with a sharp spike that a person uses to control an elephant
A sharp metal spike on a rider's heel to make a horse move faster
How Forceful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Goad comes from an old English word gād meaning 'pointed stick' or 'spear', a tool farmers used to urge animals forward. That is why a goad is a sharp stick you use to prod an ox or cow when it slows down.