prod vs put up to

prod

• To encourage, to prompt. 

• To prick with a goad. 

• To poke, to push, to touch. 

• A production; a created work. 

• A light kind of crossbow; a prodd. 

• A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument. 

• A poke. 

• A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving. 

put up to

• To encourage or trick (someone) to perform an action which is foolish or wrong.