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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botch

UK /bɒt͡ʃ/ · US /bɑt͡ʃ/ verb, noun

Forms botches botching botched

  1. verb To perform (a task) in an incompetent or unacceptable manner; to make a mess of something. “A botched haircut seems to take forever to grow out.”
  2. verb To do (something) without care or skill, or clumsily.
  3. verb To mend or repair (something) clumsily.
  4. noun An action, job, or task that has been performed very badly; a ruined, defective, or clumsy piece of work.
  5. noun A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  6. noun A mistake that is very stupid or embarrassing.
  7. noun A messy, disorderly or confusing combination; a conglomeration; hodgepodge.
  8. noun (archaic) One who makes a mess of something.
  9. noun (obsolete) A tumour or other malignant swelling.
  10. noun A case or outbreak of boils or sores.

Synonyms

ruin bungle ball up blight bumble bugger up contaminate corrupt crab deprave disrupt disturb foil fuck up jack up mar mess up mishandle mommick pollute blunder blooper bloomer pratfall foul-up fuckup flub boner boo-boo bodge

Etymology

From Middle English bocchen (“to mend”), of uncertain origin. Possibly from Old English bōtettan (“to improve; cure; remedy; repair”), related to boot, or from Middle Dutch botsen, butsen, boetsen (“to repair; patch”), related to beat. Doublet of bodge.

From Middle English botche, from Anglo-Norman boche, from Late Latin bocia (“boss”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.]
  2. noun A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner.
  3. verb To mark with, or as with, botches.
  4. verb To repair; to mend; esp. to patch in a clumsy or imperfect manner, as a garment; --sometimes with up. Sick bodies . . . to be kept and botched up for a time. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Etymology [Same as Boss a stud. For senses 2 & 3 cf. D. botsen to beat, akin to E. beat.]

Etymology [See Botch, n.]

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