Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

“goads” is a form of

goad

UK /ɡəʊd/ · US /ɡoʊd/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms goads goading goaded

  1. noun A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
  2. noun (figurative) That which goads or incites; a stimulus.
  3. verb To prod with a goad.
  4. verb To encourage or stimulate.
  5. verb To incite or provoke. “goading a boy to fight”
  6. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

bield embolden hearten actuate spur abet goose fuel light a fire under send sting bring about cheer draw drive encourage egg on engender evoke excite prod goading prodding urging spurring prick needle

Etymology

From Middle English gode, from Old English gād (“goad”), from Proto-Germanic *gaidō (compare Old Norse gedda (“pike (fish)”), Lombardic gaida (“spear”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- (compare Old Irish gath (“spear”), Sanskrit हिन्वति (hinvati), हिनोति (hinoti, “to urge on, throw”), हेति (heti, “missile, projectile”)). Doublet of gad and yard; see also xyston.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
  2. verb To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.
  3. verb That part of a mine from which the mineral has been partially or wholly removed; the waste left in old workings; --called also gob . To work the goaf or gob, to remove the pillars of mineral matter previously left to support the roof, and replace them with props.

Etymology [AS. gad; perh. akin to AS. gar a dart, and E. gore. See Gore, v. t.]

Etymology [Cf. lst Gob.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “goad”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “goad” (best matches first).

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