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prod
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English brodden, from Old Norse broddr (“shaft, spike”), from Proto-Germanic *bruzdaz. Cognate with Icelandic broddur, Danish brod.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /p??d/
- (US) IPA(key): /p??d/
- Rhymes: -?d
Verb
prod (third-person singular simple present prods, present participle prodding, simple past and past participle prodded)
- (transitive) To poke, to push, to touch.
- (transitive, informal) To encourage, to prompt.
- (transitive) To prick with a goad.
Translations
Noun
prod (plural prods)
- A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving.
- A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument.
- A poke.
- "It's your turn," she reminded me, giving me a prod on the shoulder.
- A light kind of crossbow; a prodd.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Fairholt to this entry?)
Derived terms
- cattle prod
Translations
Further reading
- Cattle prod on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
Shortened from production.
Noun
prod (countable and uncountable, plural prods)
- (programming, slang, uncountable) Short for production (“the live environment”).
- We've hit ten million users in prod today.
- (demoscene, slang, countable) A production; a created work.
- Check our BBS for the latest prods.
Anagrams
- dorp, drop
Old French
Noun
prod m (nominative singular proz)
- (early Old French) Alternative form of pro
prod From the web:
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jolt
English
Etymology
Perhaps from Middle English jollen (“to stagger, knock, batter”), itself perhaps a variant of Middle English chollen (“to strike, juggle, do tricks”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??lt/, IPA(key): /d???lt/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?o?lt/
- Rhymes: -?lt, -??lt
Verb
jolt (third-person singular simple present jolts, present participle jolting, simple past and past participle jolted)
- (transitive) To push or shake abruptly and roughly.
- The bus jolted its passengers at every turn.
- (transitive) To knock sharply
- (transitive) To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert
- I jolted her out of complacency.
- (transitive) To shock emotionally.
- Her untimely death jolted us all.
- (intransitive) To shake; to move with a series of jerks.
- The car jolted along the stony path.
Derived terms
- jolter
- jolthead
- jolting
- joltproof
- jolty
Translations
Noun
jolt (plural jolts)
- An act of jolting.
- A surprise or shock.
- (slang) A long prison sentence.
- (slang) A narcotic injection.
Coordinate terms
- (prison sentence): bit
Translations
References
jolt From the web:
- what jolt means
- what melts
- what melts ice
- what melts snow
- what melts ice the fastest
- what melts ice besides salt
- what melts belly fat
- what melts slime
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