Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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yank

/ˈjeɪ̯ŋk/ noun, verb

Forms yanks yanking yanked

  1. noun A sudden, vigorous pull (sometimes defined as mass times jerk, or rate of change of force). “He unjammed the rope with a short yank.”
  2. noun (slang) An act of masturbation.
  3. noun (physics, engineering) The rate of change in force with respect to time.
  4. verb (transitive) To pull (something) with a quick, strong action.
  5. verb (transitive, informal) To remove; to recall or revoke. “They yanked the product as soon as they learned it was unsafe.”
  6. verb (ambitransitive, slang) To masturbate.
  7. noun (US) Someone from the northern United States.
  8. noun (especially) One from New England.
  9. noun (especially, historical, American Civil War) Someone on the Union side.
  10. noun (slang, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Canada, UK, sometimes derogatory, by extension) Someone from the United States.

Synonyms

jerk tug fap wank beat one's meat celebrating Palm Sunday choking the chicken ham shank hand shandy Hand Solo ipsation jacking off jerking off lone rangering manustupration mastupration masturbation milking the sausage onanism peeling the cucumber Yankee Northerner Yankee-Doodle

Etymology

Attested since 1822; from Scots yank. Unknown origin.

Clipping of Yankee.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A jerk or twitch. [Colloq. U. S.]
  2. verb To twitch; to jerk. [Colloq. U. S.]
  3. noun An abbreviation of Yankee. [Slang]

Etymology [Cf. Scot. yank a sudden and severe blow.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “yank”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details