All 4 Uses of
goad
in
Great Expectations
- I might have been an unfortunate little bull in a Spanish arena, I got so smartingly touched up by these moral goads.†
p. 25.5 *goads = provokes or prods
- they always came into my mind as the acts of injudicious relatives of his, goaded on by the state of his visage and an indignant sympathy with the family features.†
p. 99.1goaded = provoked or prodded
- I think Miss Pocket was conscious that the sight of me involved her in the danger of being goaded to madness, and perhaps tearing off her cap,—which was a very hideous one, in the nature of a muslin mop,—and strewing the ground with her hair,—which assuredly had never grown on her head.†
p. 256.6
- "Now, wolf," said he, "afore I kill you like any other beast,—which is wot I mean to do and wot I have tied you up for,—I'll have a good look at you and a good goad at you.†
p. 453.8
Definition:
to provoke or annoy someone into doing something—often something unwise
or:
to prod an animal to move, or the stick used to do so
or:
to prod an animal to move, or the stick used to do so