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prod

/pɹɒd/ verb

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In Latin: pungo Wiktionary

verb Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about prod at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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

noun

  1. A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
  2. A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
  3. A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.

noun

  1. Clipping of production (“the live environment”).
    We've hit ten million users in prod today.
  2. A production; a created work.
    Check our BBS for the latest prods.

noun

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

Origin

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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