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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bloody

/ˈblʌ.di/ adjective, adverb, verb

Forms bloodier bloodiest bloodies bloodying bloodied bloudy bl**dy

  1. adjective Covered in blood. “All that remained of his right hand after the accident was a bloody stump.”
  2. adjective Characterised by bloodshed. “There have been bloody battles between the two tribes.”
  3. adjective (informal, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, Hawaii, mildly vulgar) Used as an intensifier. “Traffic in central London was a bloody mess this morning.”
  4. adjective (dated) Badly behaved; unpleasant; beastly.
  5. adverb (informal, Australia, UK, India, Ireland, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, mildly vulgar) Used to express anger, annoyance, or shock, or for emphasis.
  6. verb (transitive) To stain with blood. “The butcher often bloodied his apron in the course of his work.”
  7. verb (transitive) To draw blood from (one's opponent) in a fight.
  8. verb (transitive) To demonstrably harm (the cause of an opponent).

Synonyms

bleeding bloodied gory sanguinolent 4ucking accursed bally blasted bleeping blessed blimming blinking blooming confounded consarned cotton-picking cowson cursed dadburn dadgum crashing flaming fucking damn all-fired

Antonyms

bloodless

Etymology

From Middle English blody, blodi, from Old English blōdiġ, blōdeġ (“bloody”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdag, from Proto-Germanic *blōþagaz (“bloody”), equivalent to blood + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bläidich, blöidig, blouderch (“bloody”), West Frisian bloedich (“bloody”), Dutch bloedig (“bloody”), German Low German blödig (“bloody”), German blutig (“bloody”), Danish blodig (“bloody”), Swedish blodig (“bloody”), Faroese blóðigur (“bloody”), Icelandic blóðugur (“bloody”). See Wikipedia for thoughts on sense evolution.

From Middle English *blodien, *blodegen (attested as blodeke, bi-blodgi), from Old English blōdgian, blōdegian (“to bloody, make bloody”), from Proto-West Germanic *blōdagōn (“to make bloody”), from Proto-Germanic *blōþagōną (“to make bloody”). Cognate with Middle High German bluotigen (“to make bloody”), Swedish blodga (“to make bloody”), Icelandic blóðga (“to bloody”).

Clipping of bloody mary.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.
  2. adjective Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.
  3. verb To stain with blood. Overbury.

Etymology [AS. bl.]

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

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “bloody” (best matches first).

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