Clues for the word "GOAD"
We've had 63 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 265 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on March 29, 2026.
Definition of goad
- v. t. - A pointed instrument used to urge on a beast; hence, any necessity that urges or stimulates.
- v. t. - To prick; to drive with a goad; hence, to urge forward, or to rouse by anything pungent, severe, irritating, or inflaming; to stimulate.
Referring Clues
- Spur
- Prod
- Incite
- Cattle driver
- Egg on
- Poke
- Push
- Stick with the herd?
- Jab with a prod
- Provoke
- Ox driver
- More than nudge
- Urge
- Goose
- Drive onward
- Stimulus
- Prod annoyingly
- Prick
- Pressure
- Cattleman's prod
- Prompt
- Prod into action
- Cattle drive tool
- Cattle prod, e.g.
- Dare into doing
- Pointed encouragement
- Stick with a prod
- Urge on
- Apply pressure to
- Push one's buttons, perhaps
- Motivate
- Cattle prod
- Use spurs on
- Inducement
- Comment like "Come on, you know you want to"
- Spur on
- Purposefully provoke
- Jab with a cattle prod, say
- Pointed stick
- Drive
- Spur to action
- Urge or prod
- Stick with the spurs
- Urge or egg on
- Try to get publicity to provoke
- A dog will stir if you prod it
- Spur, incite
- Incite to act against one's inclination
- Induce
- Something provoking adult in Rover's Return?
- Spur; torment
- Taunt
- Needle
- Incite or urge
- Encourage by insisting
- Impel
- Provoke deity enclosing area
- Torment
- Compel
- Urge to action
- Stick with one's spurs
- Double-dog dare, e.g.
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Last Seen In
- New York Times - March 29, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - February 05, 2026
- LA Times - December 22, 2025
- Your Life Choices - October 05, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - August 13, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 12, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 07, 2025
- Mirror Daily - April 19, 2025
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 27, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - March 26, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - February 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 25, 2025
- Daily American - December 22, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 06, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 04, 2024
- Your Life Choices - November 14, 2024
- Mindfood Daily - November 10, 2024
- Daily American - October 25, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 11, 2024
- Daily American - September 04, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - July 07, 2024
- Daily American - April 28, 2024
- Mirror Daily - February 23, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 21, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - February 13, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - February 07, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - January 08, 2024
- Your Life Choices - January 04, 2024
- Mirror Daily - January 01, 2024
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 07, 2023
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