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prod

verb
/pɹɒd/UK/pɹɑd/US

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.

  1. derived from *bruzdaz✻
  2. derived from broddr — “shaft, spike, thorn”
  3. inherited from brodden — “to goad, incite, urge; to sprout”

Definitions

  1. To poke, to push, to touch.

  2. To encourage, to prompt.

  3. To prick with a goad.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    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 light kind of crossbow; a prodd.

      • The 125-pound prod (bow) drives bolt at 250 feet per second.

    5. Clipping of production (“the live environment”).

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

    6. A production

      A production; a created work.

      • Check our BBS for the latest prods.

    7. Alternative letter-case form of Prod (“protestant”).

    8. A Protestant, (as termed by Roman Catholics), that is in the context of their religious…

      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.
      • 'Could be a lot of things,' McCormack said. 'Still, it narrows things down. Probably a Prod […]'.
      • It was sound advice for anyone visiting Northern Ireland in 1999 and remains so today: do not refer to Protestants as “Prods”, or to Catholics as “Fenians” or “Taigs”, and whatever you do don’t refer to your visit as “being out here”.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at prod. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at prod. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at prod

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA