goader

I suppose the major reason is that someone like this suicide-goader just really wants to see people suffer and die.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Indictment for Chat Room Posts Urging Particular People to Commit Suicide 2010

I suppose the major reason is that someone like this suicide-goader just really wants to see people suffer and die.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Indictment for Chat Room Posts Urging Particular People to Commit Suicide 2010

Plus, what happens in a situation like that, when someone is goading another and there is no desired effect, the goader (what a word!) becomes increasingly enraged as they feel increasingly ineffectual.

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His kennels contain forty-eight of the finest bred hounds in France, and are guarded by three caretakers, the goader, Carl, whose fame has reached every hunting court of Europe and a couple of _valets des chiens_.

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

The prompter, the goader of that passionate man's passion, the instigater and instrument of this his utter and appalling destruction.

If Winter Comes 1925

Bianor, the shepherd of the people, and then also his companion, Oïleus, the goader of steeds.

The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840

Mr. Aylesworth, better than his promise, gave his sharp goader all his radio facilities.

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"a goader," answering to the metaphor, "one who will goad the heifer" and tame her.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871