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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budge

/bʌd͡ʒ/ verb, noun, adjective, proper noun

Forms budges budging budged bouge budg

  1. verb (intransitive) To move; to be shifted from a fixed position. “I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but it won’t budge an inch.”
  2. verb (transitive) To move; to shift from a fixed position. “I’ve been pushing this rock as hard as I can, but I can’t budge it.”
  3. verb To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. “The Minister for Finance refused to budge on the new economic rules.”
  4. verb (Upper Midwestern US, Indiana, western Canada) To cut or butt (in line); to join the front or middle rather than the back of a queue. “Hey, no budging! Don't budge in line!”
  5. verb To try to improve the spot of a decision on a sports field.
  6. noun A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on, formerly used as an edging and ornament, especially on scholastic habits.
  7. adjective (obsolete) austere or stiff, like scholastics
  8. noun (slang, obsolete) Alcoholic drink.
  9. proper noun A surname.

Synonyms

shift Don Budge John Donald Budge stir agitate

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French bouger, from Old French bougier, from Vulgar Latin *bullicāre (“to bubble; seethe; move; stir”), from Latin bullīre (“to boil; seethe; roil”). More at boil.

From Middle English bouge, bougie, bugee, from Anglo-Norman bogé, from Anglo-Latin *bogea, bulgia, related to Latin bulga (“a leathern bag or knapsack”). Doublet of bulge.

Perhaps related to booze.

English (mainly Anglo-Norman) surname, from Norman bouoche (“mouth”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. verb To move off; to stir; to walk away.
  2. adjective Brisk; stirring; jocund. [Obs.] South.
  3. noun A kind of fur prepared from lambskin dressed with the wool on; --used formerly as an edging and ornament, esp. of scholastic habits.
  4. adjective Lined with budge; hence, scholastic. "Budge gowns." Milton.

Etymology [F. bouger to stir, move (akin to Pr. bojar, bolegar, to stir, move, It. bulicare to boil, bubble), fr. L. bullire. See Boil, v. i.]

Etymology [See Budge, v.]

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