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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blunder

UK /ˈblʌn.dəː/ · US /ˈblʌn.dɚ/ noun, verb

Forms blunders blundering blundered

  1. noun A clumsy or embarrassing mistake.
  2. noun (chess) A very bad move, usually caused by some tactical oversight.
  3. noun (obsolete) Confusion; bewilderment; trouble; disturbance; clamour.
  4. verb (intransitive) To make a big mistake, especially when it is careless or stupid. “to blunder in preparing a medical prescription”
  5. verb (chess, backgammon, intransitive) To make a bad move, especially caused by tactical oversight.
  6. verb (chess, transitive) To lose a piece due to having made a bad move [with the piece lost]. “blunder a rook”
  7. verb (chess, transitive) To overlook the possibility of, or end up in, a specified undesirable situation after making a bad move. “blunder a draw”
  8. verb (intransitive, sometimes figurative, with adverb or preposition) To move in an unsteady way.
  9. verb (intransitive, with adverb or preposition) To enter a place or become involved in a difficult situation by mistake.
  10. verb (transitive, obsolete) To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

Synonyms

blooper mul:?? goof howler bloomer bungle pratfall foul-up fuckup flub botch boner boo-boo drop the ball sin boob fumble blurt out blurt blunder out ejaculate

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English blundren, blondren (verb) and blunder, blonder (“disturbance, strife”), from the verb; partly from Middle English blondren, a frequentative form of Middle English blonden, blanden ("to mix; mix up"; corresponding to blend + -er); and partly from Middle English blundren, a frequentative form of Middle English blunden (“to stagger; stumble”), from Old Norse blunda (“to shut the eyes; doze”). Cognates include Norwegian blunda (“to shut the eyes; doze”), dialectal Swedish blundra (“to act blindly or rashly”), Danish blunde (“to blink”) or blunde (“to take a nap”), Icelandic blunda (“to nap; doze”). Related to English blind.

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift.
  2. verb To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble.
  3. verb To cause to blunder. [Obs.] "To blunder an adversary." Ditton.
  4. verb To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse.

Etymology [OE. blunderen, blondren, to stir, confuse, blunder; perh. allied to blend to mix, to confound by mixture.]

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

Sanskrit

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