prod

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see also: Prod

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /pɹɒd/
• (America) IPA: /pɹɑd/

Verb

prod (prods, present participle prodding; past and past participle prodded)

1. (transitive) To poke, to push, to touch.
2. (transitive, informal) To encourage, to prompt.
3. (transitive) To prick with a goad.

Translations

• French: pousser, tâter
• German: stoßen, anstupsen
• Italian: pungolare, spronare
• Portuguese: cutucar
• Russian: ты́кать

Translations

• French: encourager
• German: anspornen, ermutigen
• Italian: incoraggiare, stimolare
• Portuguese: aguilhoar
• Russian: побужда́ть
• Spanish: aguijar

Translations

• German: anstacheln, antreiben

Noun

prod (plural prods)

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.

Translations

• German: Stachelstock, Treibestock
• Italian: picca
• Spanish: aguijada, picana, garrocha

Noun

prod (plural prods)

1. (computing, programming, demoscene, slang) A production.

   Check our BBS for the latest prods.

   We've hit ten million users in prod today.

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Prod

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Pronunciation

• (America) IPA: /pɹɑd/
• (RP) IPA: /pɹɒd/

Noun

prod (plural prods)

1. (Ireland, UK, slang, sometimes derogatory) A Protestant, (as termed by Roman Catholics), that is in the context of their religious beliefs, or those who have been born in the Protestant tradition, or sometimes those implied to be Protestant by their political ideology of Irish unionism or Ulster loyalism.

   "I don't want my daughter marrying a dirty Prod," he said.

Synonyms

• Orangey
• Proddy

Antonyms

• catlicker, Catlicker

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