Green’s Dictionary of Slang

to irritate, to annoy.

1879		‘Autobiog. of a Thief’ in Macmillan’s Mag. (London) XL 502: The only thing that spurred (annoyed) me was me being such a flat to buy the home.
1905		Sporting Times 15 Apr. 2/3: [This] gave the old ’un the spur, right good an’ plenty. But he ’eld his ’and an’ never showed temper.