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GOADING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does goading mean?
• GOADING (noun)
The noun GOADING has 1 sense:
1. a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
Familiarity information: GOADING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
goad; goading; prod; prodding; spur; spurring; urging
Context example:
the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves
Hypernyms ("goading" is a kind of...):
encouragement (the expression of approval and support)
Derivation:
goad (annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism)
goad (urge with or as if with a goad)
Context examples
It was sheer frenzy of this sort which made him throw his hands up into the air when his father, at their last interview, was goading him on to propose to Miss Turner.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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