<span class="searchmatch">goad</span> <span class="searchmatch">sticks</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">goad</span> stick...
<span class="searchmatch">goad</span> stick (plural <span class="searchmatch">goad</span> <span class="searchmatch">sticks</span>) A stick used as a <span class="searchmatch">goad</span>. 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VI, in The Innocents Abroad, or...
and a dozen volunteers beside, and they banged the donkeys with their <span class="searchmatch">goad</span>-<span class="searchmatch">sticks</span>, and pricked them with their spikes, and shouted something that sounded...
(“stick”). Related to stigma. stick (countable and uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">sticks</span>) An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use...
cognate with Old Saxon fūsian (“to strive”), Old Norse fýsa (“to drive, <span class="searchmatch">goad</span>; to admonish”). Citations for faze in the Oxford English Dictionary start...